how do i restore windows 8 to a new hard disk

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Hello,

the hard disk of a Samsung Ultra 5 crashed. I have got a new hard disk. How do i restore windows 8 and Samsung drivers to the new hard disk? My friend has an exact notebook. How do i copy the recovery partition from his pc and use it on mine?

Thanks
 

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On my acer laptop they have a process to make a bootable recovery disk on a USB thumb drive. See if your friend's PC has that ability - should be in the samsung software somewhere. Then you could use the thumb drive to restore your system.
 

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If you make the recovery thumb drive, make sure you check the option to "Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". If you don't you won't have all the files you need to do the reset. You'll need a large capacity drive too. I needed a 16 GB thumb drive when I created one on my laptop.
 

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@genet

Great tutorial mate :thumb:.

I wonder why Microsoft wrote in their tutorial that "Reset" function can be used to perform a "bare metal" recovery ?.

Source : Push-Button Reset Overview

If the user needs to replace the hard drive, or completely wipe it, they can use bootable recovery media. Bare-metal recovery performs these processes:

  • The PC boots into Windows RE.
  • Push-button reset identifies the system drive.
  • Push-button reset re-creates and formats each of the partitions specified in the diskpart script.
  • Push-button reset applies the factory image file to the Windows partition.
  • Push-button reset configures Windows RE and the recovery image on the disk.
  • Windows restarts into the OOBE.
 

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    VIA VT1708s High Definition Audio 8-channel Onboard
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    Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD and 500 GB WD Blue SATA
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I think i found the answer why "Reset" is not performing a bare metal recovery. According to Microsoft Technet documentations, OEM can customize the "Refresh" and "Reset" process by creating custom XML configuration files. For bare metal recovery, XML variable <DiskpartScriptPath> should be defined and a DISKPART script should be provided. But this is not mandatory and i assume most manufacturers don't use the sample script provided by Microsoft.

ResetConfig XML Reference

The Diskpart script must recreate each of the partitions needed to restore the hard drive.
If this element is not included, your user won't be able to repartition the hard drive.
 

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If you make the recovery thumb drive, make sure you check the option to "Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". If you don't you won't have all the files you need to do the reset. You'll need a large capacity drive too. I needed a 16 GB thumb drive when I created one on my laptop.

I tried this option. I checked the option to "copy content from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". I used a 16GB thumb drive. When i try to use it on the PC with the new hard disk. It starts the recovery and then asks me for an image.
 

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If all else fails Macrium Reflect will copy/Image your friends disk and Restore it to your new Hard drive and its free.

Then you can use the standard Refresh/Restore? to put you back to as shipped from the factory.
 

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If you make the recovery thumb drive, make sure you check the option to "Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". If you don't you won't have all the files you need to do the reset. You'll need a large capacity drive too. I needed a 16 GB thumb drive when I created one on my laptop.

I tried this option. I checked the option to "copy content from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". I used a 16GB thumb drive. When i try to use it on the PC with the new hard disk. It starts the recovery and then asks me for an image.

How much space was used on the thumb drive? If I remember correctly the image is in a wim file.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Education 64 Bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS M4N68T-M V2 µATX Motherboard
    Memory
    8GB 4GBx2 Kingston PC10600 DDR3 1333 Memory
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA Geforce GT640 2 Gig DDR3 PCIe
    Sound Card
    VIA VT1708s High Definition Audio 8-channel Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    22" LG E2242 1080p and 2 19" I-INC AG191D
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024 - 1920x1080 - 1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD and 500 GB WD Blue SATA
    PSU
    Thermaltake TR 620
    Case
    Power Up Black ATX Mid-Tower Case
    Cooling
    Stock heatsink fan
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless K350 Wave
    Mouse
    Logitech M570 Trackball and T650 TouchPad
    Internet Speed
    80 Mbps Down 30 Mbps Up
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    HP DVD1040e Lightscribe - External USB2
If all else fails Macrium Reflect will copy/Image your friends disk and Restore it to your new Hard drive and its free.

Then you can use the standard Refresh/Restore? to put you back to as shipped from the factory.

How do i use the standard Refresh/Restore? I do not need to back up the whole drive with all the programs installed. Only want to restore the factory image.
 

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If you make the recovery thumb drive, make sure you check the option to "Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". If you don't you won't have all the files you need to do the reset. You'll need a large capacity drive too. I needed a 16 GB thumb drive when I created one on my laptop.

I tried this option. I checked the option to "copy content from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". I used a 16GB thumb drive. When i try to use it on the PC with the new hard disk. It starts the recovery and then asks me for an image.

How much space was used on the thumb drive? If I remember correctly the image is in a wim file.

Oh! good question. I need to check how much space was used. I remember when i was browsing around the thumb drive when it asked me to locate the image file, i remember seeing three wim files. Tried to click around but they didn't work.

Thanks for your help.
 

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  • OS
    Windows
I tried this option. I checked the option to "copy content from the recovery partition to the recovery drive". I used a 16GB thumb drive. When i try to use it on the PC with the new hard disk. It starts the recovery and then asks me for an image.

How much space was used on the thumb drive? If I remember correctly the image is in a wim file.

Oh! good question. I need to check how much space was used. I remember when i was browsing around the thumb drive when it asked me to locate the image file, i remember seeing three wim files. Tried to click around but they didn't work.

Thanks for your help.

The image can be split up. If the thumb drive is formatted in the FAT 32 file system there is a 4 gig max file size limit. I've only ever tried to do what your doing once and failed miserably. I swapped the factory drive in my laptop with a smaller SSD. Trying to do a reset from my recovery thumb drive failed no matter what I tried. I even tried recreating some of the partitions. My original drive was 750 GB and my SSD was only 128 GB so that didn't help things. I just gave up and did a clean install. I was able to use my embedded OEM key in my BIOS so activation wasn't an issue for me afterwards.
 

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  • OS
    Windows 10 Education 64 Bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS M4N68T-M V2 µATX Motherboard
    Memory
    8GB 4GBx2 Kingston PC10600 DDR3 1333 Memory
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA Geforce GT640 2 Gig DDR3 PCIe
    Sound Card
    VIA VT1708s High Definition Audio 8-channel Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    22" LG E2242 1080p and 2 19" I-INC AG191D
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024 - 1920x1080 - 1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD and 500 GB WD Blue SATA
    PSU
    Thermaltake TR 620
    Case
    Power Up Black ATX Mid-Tower Case
    Cooling
    Stock heatsink fan
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless K350 Wave
    Mouse
    Logitech M570 Trackball and T650 TouchPad
    Internet Speed
    80 Mbps Down 30 Mbps Up
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    HP DVD1040e Lightscribe - External USB2
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