wlcardosorj
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Fellow users,
I have a big problem, my hard drive failed and I have no recovery disks with me.
It came pre-loaded with Sony's OEM Win 8.0 and several partitions. I tried to recover the system, but my HD has too many bad blocks and it ends up freezing.
So I bought a new HD and placed it into my laptop. Using a Linux Boot-CD and a SATA-USB adaptor, I was able to access several partitions on my old HD. I used GParted to copy and paste the SONYSYS, Recovery, Windows RE Tools, Disk-1 and Disk-2 partitions to my new HD, but not my OEM partition.
I tried to boot the computer this way, but it did not boot, said that my system needed repair and that I should boot with a recovery disk.
I have created a USB Boot Disk on another Win8 computer (lenovo), but I did not copy the recovery partition (for obvious reasons). Now I am able to boot to the recovery tools, but when I click to Restore the system, it says it cannot locate needed partitions.
After that, I also tried to recover from a System Image and guide it to my Install.wim file, but it said that it did not contain info on my syste,
I spent the last day looking at threads here about DISKPART, but I cannot manage to make it work. I am not that advanced and I feel like I am shooting in the dark here.
So, with my recovery partition in hands, how can I recover my system (factory settings of course) in my new HD?
Thanks in advance.
I have a big problem, my hard drive failed and I have no recovery disks with me.
It came pre-loaded with Sony's OEM Win 8.0 and several partitions. I tried to recover the system, but my HD has too many bad blocks and it ends up freezing.
So I bought a new HD and placed it into my laptop. Using a Linux Boot-CD and a SATA-USB adaptor, I was able to access several partitions on my old HD. I used GParted to copy and paste the SONYSYS, Recovery, Windows RE Tools, Disk-1 and Disk-2 partitions to my new HD, but not my OEM partition.
I tried to boot the computer this way, but it did not boot, said that my system needed repair and that I should boot with a recovery disk.
I have created a USB Boot Disk on another Win8 computer (lenovo), but I did not copy the recovery partition (for obvious reasons). Now I am able to boot to the recovery tools, but when I click to Restore the system, it says it cannot locate needed partitions.
After that, I also tried to recover from a System Image and guide it to my Install.wim file, but it said that it did not contain info on my syste,
I spent the last day looking at threads here about DISKPART, but I cannot manage to make it work. I am not that advanced and I feel like I am shooting in the dark here.
So, with my recovery partition in hands, how can I recover my system (factory settings of course) in my new HD?
Thanks in advance.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- SVE14A27CHX
- Antivirus
- AVG