F9 recovery gives error 225

i have an 18 month old Asus desktop with Win 8/64. Blank screen on booting, was able to do a F9 repair so the system boots. However chkdsk shows 4 bad sectors. Also sytem is not stable (eg upgrade to 8.1 failed) So decided to replace the hdd with an identical model. Note the Asus "backtracker" program also fails on the original Win 8 hdd.

I cloned the hdd creating an identical GPT partition map. System boots, (no bad sectors), As there were errors in the c:\windows\system32\config folder on the original hdd, I thought it would be worth doing a windows cleanup. However am unable to access the recovery partition(s) via F9 - get error 225 everytime.

So in summary I have two identical Hdds first one with a flakey systems partition with bad sectors, but working F9 recovery partition, and a second hdd with a clean systems partition but no usable F9 recovery partition.

Not sure how F9 works, so at a loss as how to resolve this. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

As a workaround is there a cloning program that does work with recovery partitions?

Reading other posts, my learning curve is moving albeit at a low trajectory; I have done a reagentc /info of both drives, they appear identical, both the one that works and the one that doesn't (see below).

As I did a sector by sector clone, might the error imply that the recovery partition is at a different sector address?

C:\Windows\system32>reagentc /info (Clone)
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration information:

Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: d30004fe-19f5-11e3-be72-ac220b89448c
Recovery image location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition6\RecoveryImage
Recovery image index: 3
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.

C:\Windows\system32>reagentc /info (Original)
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration information:


Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: d30004fe-19f5-11e3-be72-ac220b89448c
Recovery image location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition6\RecoveryImage
Recovery image index: 3
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0

REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.




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