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‎07-08-2015 10:22 AM - edited ‎07-08-2015 11:26 AM

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Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

I received my new Envy 15 Laptop today. It has a 1Tb 5400rpm hard drive but I want to replace with SSD. I tried cloning it to a 300Gb SSD drive. I used "EaseUS Todo Backup Free".

The laptop boots up to Windows 8.1 successfully on the new cloned SSD , but when I press F11 key during bootup to load the recovery partition it errors out. If I swap back to the 1TB 5400rpm original drive, the F11 key bootup recovery works.

How do I clone the recovery partion from the 1TB HDD to the 300gb SSD ?

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‎07-09-2015 03:46 PM

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Hello @sc00bie,

 

Welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience! To help you get the most out of the HP Forums, I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More.

 

I understand that you are having an issue migrating your Hard Disk to a SSD, and wanted to assist you!

 

You may be having this issue, because you tried to migrate a larger 1TB HDD to a smaller 300GB SSD drive.  Please review the following resources to assist you with this situation:

Cloning Hard-drive to SSD 

Cloning a larger HDD to a smaller SSD

How to migrate HDD to SSD without reinstalling windows (Includes UEFI FIX)

 

These resources are not HP supported Web sites.

 

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Regards!

 

 

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