Backup recovery partition

i have disk recovery partition that was deleted. now i want it come back, can i back it up with software from third-party ? any one know ? please help me, thank you. .

Hi,
The only way to get the Recovery Partition back is to use your Recovery Discs to reistall the operating system as this will also re-create the recovery partition on the hard drive.  Make sure to back-up your personal files etc first.
If you don't have these discs, you can order a replacement set using the link below.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00810334&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
If you have any problem with this link, order them directly from HP.
If you live in the US, contact HP Here.
If you are in another part of the world, start Here.
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    29-07-2014  18:59        92,631,005 0027defd.cab
    29-07-2014  18:59             7,539 00334cf3.cab
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    dir /s /a:s >f:\list2.txt
     Volume in drive D is DATA
     Volume Serial Number is 9A82-D42B
     Directory of D:\recovered1
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    18-06-2013  20:38         3,170,304 boot.sdi
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    18-04-2014  00:19            20,480 tracking.log
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    Kindly guide me how can I use my hidden recovery partition to reset and refresh by use of these files.

  • How do I install a Lion Recovery Partition

    I recently installed a new Hard Drive in my Early 2011 Macbook Pro, and I was wondering if there was any way I could out the Lion Recovery Partion on it.
    Thanks In Advance

    CCC Carbon Copy Cloner has a utility called "Disk Center" that is included with CCC that will create a Recovery Partition for you.  I understand that CCC is not free, but it does have a free 30 day trial. 
    The "Disk Center" in CCC Carbon Copy Cloner is not obvious or easy to find, unless you know where to look for it (in the Window menu pulldown)... it's easy to miss.  Once you find it in the CCC menu system, it is a quick (<5min) turnkey way to create a Recovery HD Partition on any disk, internal or external.
    I  thought I should share this, since I burned several hours of pain-staking research and experimentation in search of how to create/re-create a "Recovery HD" Partition for my MacBook Retina Mavericks laptop.  My journey was varietal, including:
    Successfully using a manual set of instructions with Terminal to execute a multi-step approach that worked ( http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install -drive.html )
    As well as a utility from musings.slivertooth.us that worked for me as advertised.  Only problem is that while I appreciate and respect the great utility that guy created, my risk-averse nature prevents me from using a non-commercial utility to muck with the low-level details of my boot drive.  Great job, but I prefer CCC since it's backed by a commercial SW company.  Here's his great uility, as referenced in Apple discussion threads like this one:  ( http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lio n/ )
    Therefore, I was relieved to discover that CCC has a utility specifically designed to do this for me.
    FYI: How did I find myself in this position?  I lost my Recovery HD partition because I used Super Duper to Clone my HD/SSD, and subsequently restored my MacBook at one point.  Super Duper has worked awesomely well for me for several years.  It clones HDs/SSDs without a glitch, and makes them bootable automatically.  The only gap or lack of function I have discovered is that "Super Duper" does not Clone the "Recovery HD" Partition.  CCC Carbon Copy Cloner does.  So, while I like Super Duper, I'm switching to CCC Carbon Copy Cloner for my backups from now on.
    Disclaimer: I don't work for CCC.  I'm just an I/T Professional that needed to figure out how to create/re-create a Recovery HD Partition...

  • How can I see the files in the Recovery partition folders? Explorer won't let me.

    I am preparing to do a clean install of Windows 7 onto a hard drive that shipped with Vista Home and the Recovery partition.  I want to reuse the recovery tools along with Windows 7 in the recovery partition.  Windows Explorer won't display the contents of the recovery folders.  How can I overcome this?
    Thanks,
    Luke

    Force it into recovery mode to restore it as explained here: If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.  Sometimes you have to do this more than once to be successful.  After restoring, you'll have to restore an existing backup, if you have one.

  • Recovery partition deleted and formatted

    Hello
    I have accidentally deleted recovery partition of my compaq presario cq61 (win7 home premium 64bit)  while trying to install another operating system.  Before the accident I had the C drive and the D drive marked Recovery, now after deleted the other operating system I have the C drive and a D drive marked as System.
     It's possible to recover this partition from an image back-up I made before?
    Thanks 
    This question was solved.
    View Solution.

    Hi Michele,
    Recovering the recovery partition is not that likely to be a possibility with a free program. The chances of restoring it from the windows backup is also quite slim.
    If your brother's notebook is absolutely identical then using it is a viable solution to the problem.  If it is not identical then it will be a waste of time as the recovery manager itself will refuse to work.
    The best option is to use a recovery disk that is made specifically for or created by your notebook. $30.00 is a lot cheaper than purachasing an operating system. 
    You can backup the current disk partitions with a program like the Paragon program I provided you a link to in an earlier post. At least that way you will have a reliable image of the current situation on your notebook's hard disk. 
    You can also legally reinstall Windows by using the Microsoft Windows license on the certificate of authenticity on the bottom of your notebook. 
    Best regards,
    erico
    ****Please click on Accept As Solution if a suggestion solves your problem. It helps others facing the same problem to find a solution easily****
    2015 Microsoft MVP - Windows Experience Consumer

  • Problem creating Mtn Lion Recovery partition on external drive.

    USB external.  Newly erased, three partitions: one 2GB for Recovery HD, other two backups of my old SL machine and new ML machine (Mini). Those work and their respective machines fine.  Drive seems OK.
        Used Recovery Disk Asst v. 1.0 to create Recovery HD on the small partition while booted into 10.8.2 (the brand new Mini).  Factory installed Mtn Lion Recovery HD exists on internal drive and it works— when starting with command-R or command-shift-R, not with Option key.     Install of Recovery HD to external seemed to go fine and doing a "diskutil list" in Terminal showed both the internal and external Recovery HD's, properly named as such.   However, when restarted with Option down the recovery partition showed up named the same as my internal— at that point "Macintosh HD" but later when I changed the internal's name, reinstalled the Recovery HD, and restarted with Option key the recovery partition now was named the same as new internal drive name.   Both times choosing the recovery partition resulted in booting into internal drive.   
    Was wondering if anyone had a similar problem— and found solution/reason.   Apple Tech Support particularly not helpful/knowledgeable on this subject. 

    Hi Baltwo
       Really appreciate the help.   Many thanks.     Finally seems to be working.     Not sure exactly what worked but in case you're interested I'll give you a, hopefully, short summary:
    Using DU (after copy/paste of the command you wrote above into Terminal) I cloned the working internal drives RDH to the partition for it on the ext.   Failed— still seemed to work as almost an alias pointing at the boot volume on the internal.
    So, erased the external again; didn't partition, did a reinstall of ML from DU while booted into RDH of internal.  Then started from that new ML partition on external and let Setup Asst migrate everything over from the internal to keep Users/Permissions from being a problem.
        When that finished I tried to restart w option key.   Got a recovery HD that was called exactly that but, again, booted into internal boot drive.   Booted into internals RHD just to make sure it was OK and it was.
       For whatever reason again restarted w option key.   This time I got four choices:  the boot volume of internal and external, an ext volume called Recovery HD (the trickster), and another volume called Recovery 10.8.3.   Something new— and, as Bill Murray said in Ground Hog Day, "anything new is good."   So I tried booting into that new RHD 10.8.3.  (Note, I'm still running 10.8.2 on boot volumes.)
      And that worked— booted into Recovery HD but no way that I could figure to see for sure that it was the Recovery HD on ext vs. on internal.   I think I need to activate the Debug menu on the RHD DU so I can choose the 10.8.3 recovery and see if I have the option of Repairing the disk or it's greyed out.  If greyed, then proves I'm booted into it.   Might be a more elegant way to see that but it's the one I know.    Still, I assume I was in the RHD on the external.
      Then made a second partition for the old mac's backup and that initially resulted in the boot volume of the internal backup not be mountable but after a restart or two testing the two RHD's, the mini decided to see all the volumes and things are, for the moment, copacetic.  
      Hope that wasn't too long and boring.    From my experience and reading on the 'net, my general sense is that there are a bunch of variables that all have to be right for this process to work.  Probably less is more and just installing ML on a disk by itself will be the most reliable method, if most wasteful of data storage. 
    Regardless, couldn't have done it without you, baltwo.   I don't use this forum enough to know what the etiquette and protocols are but I marked all of your posts as useful, which they were, and, finally, as solving my issue, which they did. 
    Thanks again

  • Time Machine Recovery Partition

    Hi,
    I am using an external HDD as my TimeMachine.
    I know that it had a Recovery Partition on it.
    But I seem to have lost it after I erased/reformatted it.
    i THINK I'd like it back: I mean it can't hurt, right?
    I just reformatted it and have redone my TimeMachine backups because I did a repair and stopped it partway thru.
    Needed to take my MacBook away.
    And corrupted the disk.
    I thought better just start again.
    But now I see it has done its first backup but I don't see a Recovery Partition on it.
    I'm 100% there WAS one before I reformatted it and started over.
    See copy of my diskutil list of BEFORE I reformatted.
    I reformatted because I decided to get rid of the separate WinCloneBackup partition.
    I was using it to store copies of my WinClone backups of BootCamp, but I've stopped that.
    Doing it on another HDD.
    Initial TimeMachine partition map:
    /dev/disk5
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk5
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS Time_Machine_Home       3.8 TB     disk5s2
       3:                  Apple_HFS WinClone_Backup         200.0 GB   disk5s3
       4:                  Apple_HFS Recovery                16.0 GB    disk5s4
    Current Partition map:
    /dev/disk2
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk2
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS TimeMachine_Home        4.0 TB     disk2s2
    I thought Partition 4, the Apple Recovery, was added by TimeMachine???
    Am on MacBook Pro 2012 with Mavericks.
    If curious, I have a 1TB SSD Crucial plus a 1TB HDD WesternDigital on my MacBook.
    So I thought I'd use a 4TH HDD for TimeMachine.
    I also use CarbonCopyClone on a separate HDD to backup.
    AND a separate HDD for TimeMachine at work.
    Any idea?
    Thanks,
    Alab

    Hi,
    I appreciate the help here, and I'm not trying to be argumentative, but this really doesn't seem consistent to me.
    The Terminal diskutil list command will list all partitions on any drive as far as I'm aware.
    Including recovery.
    Not so?
    The posts on other threads seem to say that.
    LowLuster, those are just Finder screenshots you've posted: I understand that the Recovery partition is usually hidden on Finder.
    But not on diskutil list.
    I posted two diskutil list shots of my TimeMachine HDD: before and after.
    The one BEFORE reformat showed a partitiion with "Recovery": Partition 4.
    The one AFTER does not show that.
    For clarity I do again.
    Initial TimeMachine partition map:
    /dev/disk5
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk5
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS Time_Machine_Home       3.8 TB     disk5s2
       3:                  Apple_HFS WinClone_Backup         200.0 GB   disk5s3
       4:                  Apple_HFS Recovery                16.0 GB    disk5s4
    Current Partition map:
    /dev/disk2
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk2
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS TimeMachine_Home        4.0 TB     disk2s2
    They are different disk numbers because the diskutil lists were done with different HDD connected.
    So BEFORE I did the reformat, TimeMachine was disk5.
    And AFTER the reformat it was disk2.
    I booted up with the option key, and I only see the startup disk recovery option.
    Nothing from TimeMachine.
    See attached photo.
    I see BootCamp (which doesn't work properly after Mavericks screwed up my partition, but I'm about to fix that.
    That's on another thread.
    But that is why I want REALLY good backups in case something goes wrong.
    I also attach sudo fdisk /dev/disk1 of the TimeMachine HDD.
    No Recovery partition.
    You can see that only one of the GUID potential partitions has anything in it: Partition 1.
    There is NOTHING from a Recovery partition.
    And fdisk shows EVERYTHING: nothing is "hidden" from it.
    Alans-MacBook-Pro:~ arjarvis_mbp$ diskutil list
    /dev/disk0
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk0
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS Mac_SSD                 869.9 GB   disk0s2
       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             784.2 MB   disk0s3
       4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                89.3 GB    disk0s4
    /dev/disk1
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS Mac_HDD                 999.9 GB   disk1s2
    /dev/disk2
       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk2
       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
       2:                  Apple_HFS TimeMachine_Home        4.0 TB     disk2s2
    Alans-MacBook-Pro:~ arjarvis_mbp$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk2
    Password:
    Disk: /dev/disk2          geometry: 219051/255/63 [3519069872 sectors]
    Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
    #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
    1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 - 4294967294] <Unknown ID>
    2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     
    3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     
    4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     
    Alans-MacBook-Pro:~ arjarvis_mbp$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk2
    gpt show: disk2: mediasize=4000787030016; sectorsize=512; blocks=7814037168
    gpt show: disk2: PMBR at sector 0
    gpt show: disk2: Pri GPT at sector 1
    gpt show: disk2: Sec GPT at sector 7814037167
           start        size  index  contents
               0           1         PMBR
               1           1         Pri GPT header
               2          32         Pri GPT table
              34           6        
              40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
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