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‎02-19-2021 03:21 PM

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Product: HP ENVY 17 Notebook PC
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

hello,

please help me to move my recovery partition to a usb flash drive because i need to formate my hard disk and i dont want to lose my recovery partition

thanks

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‎02-19-2021 03:38 PM

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@ahmedfamo 

 

You can format C: without touching to Recovery Partition. Moving to USB then move back it may not work later. Actually for Windows 10 machines, you can recover any time using Microsoft tool

 

                           https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

   or HP tool     https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06162205

 

Regards.

BH
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‎02-19-2021 03:43 PM

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thanks for your replay but i don't want to format c drive only but i want to format the whole hard disk and re partition it so i need to move recovery partition to a USB flash disk, i have a new ssd hard so i want to install windows on it after formatting the other hard drive

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