Lost recovery argument

[Abdullah-909909]

I have created an intermediate recovery but lost it
I want to have the opportunity to create another copy

I want to scan the entire HardDisk and then install it again through the recovery drive

[WAWood]

@Abdullah-909909

Hello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

Sorry, but I have no idea what an "intermediate recovery" is, so I can't help you on that.

The HP Recovery Manager only provide one attempt to create HP Recovery Media.  Once you have used that, you can not make the media a second time.  That's how it works.

However, you can consider using a third-party tool known as Macrium Reflect to make recovery media as many times as you like.

I prefer to use third-party recovery solutions for the following reasons:
1) More flexibility and reliabilty -- can make recovery media as often as you like, not restricted to one attempt, which if it fails, then you are stuck.
2) More media options -- can create media in DVD, USB stick, or external drive format
3) Mounting option -- can "mount" the save images as virtual "drives" and extract individual files and folders
4) WinPE boot option -- can install a special boot option that allows you to boot to recovery information and do a repair or restore from there -- when Windows will not boot

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
2) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive, USB stick, or DVDs
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 50% of the USED space in the OS partition. This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 20GB to store the image file.

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 15 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore. Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry. This allows you then to boot into WinPE, and you can then use that to do a restore -- when you can't boot into Windows!

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive, USB or DVDs stick in only a few minutes.

Good Luck

[Abdullah-909909]

I have a question

Hardisk Recovery
If you create a file iso or img
Then restored it after all the divisions of the HARDISK had been discarded, and it had been prepared and partitioned in the same way

Will you work ??

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@Abdullah-909909

A physical disk drive consists of one or more partitions -- each of which contains a file system.

When you create a backup Image of an entire drive, that image contains all the partitions on that drive.  So, when you then restore that same drive from that image, it will restore all the original partitions that were there when you made that backup.  

If you restore that image to a different physical drive, it will recreate all the partitions that are in that image, but on the second drive.

However, if all you do is backup a single partition from a drive, or a set of files from a drive, then restoring those will have no effect on other partitions or files.