Recovery Partition Size
I have a Toshiba Satellite L755 (about 3 years old). Today the hard drive crashed and I installed a new 1T toshiba SATA drive. When I used my recovery DVDs, the recovery software asked for the WIndows (C partition size. I used 500M thinking a D: partition would be created with the remaining drive space - WRONG. The computer only sees the 500M C: partition. Is there a way to recover the remaining drive space???
Personally, I would redo the recovery and designate the entire available free space to C:. With new HDDs reliability, and Windows 7+ recovery options available, there is little to no reason to create a separate D - data partition. This can also restrict your software installation and recovery options.
Regardless, if you wish to do so, click 'Start' -> type in: diskmgmt.msc --> click on this file. Follow the directions in this article to create a new partition - drive on your HDD.
Good luck.
Mike
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copy recovery partition on USB pen drive.
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working? It was working when notebook was new.
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after restart. I used following command
1. Command Prompt Run as administer.
2. diskpart
3. list disk
4. select disk 0
5. list partition
6. select partition 6
7. assign letter z
by these commands hidden recovery partition becomes visible and again when I restart laptop it becomes invisible.
And I am not able to do anything with recovery partition E.G. copy the recovery partition to USB
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on the basis of newly created image.
recimg /createimage D:\IMAGE81
recimg /setcurrent D:\IMAGE81
But it is also not working this time and it gives a message "Drive on which windows is installed is locked unlock it".
May because I installe AVG antivirus it locked the drive.
I also used REAgentC command
reagentc /setreimage /path F:\Recovery\WindowsRE\ /target C:\Windows /bootkey 4300
Maybe I executed above command once again I used D: instead of F:
And I was able to refresh PC but I was not able to Reset. And I was not able to copy recovery partition on USB
by going to control panel> Recovery >create a recovery drive.
Recovery drive dialog box appears but with grayed check box of "copy the recovery partition from PC
to the recovery drive".
((I am giving images of computer management in first_image no partition was created it was in factory made state. And
in second_Image I created an extra disk partition which is present on disk this time.)) I cannot give images because
of my account is not varified.
So I am giving output of diskpart command to understand disk partitions.
C:\>diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB *
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 C OS NTFS Partition 186 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 2 D DATA NTFS Partition 130 GB Healthy
Volume 3 F DOWNLOADS NTFS Partition 128 GB Healthy
Volume 4 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System
Volume 5 Recovery NTFS Partition 900 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 6 Restore NTFS Partition 20 GB Healthy Hidden
in the beginnig instead of D: (130 GB) and F:(128 GB) there was only one partition D:(258 GB) 130+128 GB.
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1. Tell me how to regain the link to factory recovery drive.
2. Please tell me how can I refresh and reset PC on the basis of Hidden Factory Recovery Partition. And how can I copy Hidden Factory Recovery Partition on USB and DVDs. I have 16GB USB pen drive and a DVD writer. So I can use these two storage media
only and except these I have 500GB HDD on my laptop.
4. I want to know that Factory recovery partition is useful or not. Should I delete it.
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windows 8. I have upgraded to windows 8.1. So please tell me can I create my own hidden recovey partition for windows 8.1.
5. Can I download contents of factory recovery partition from internet.
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able to reset and refresh computer.
7. Microsoft shoult create a program that can re-establish link to factory recovery partition. And this program should be able to create new hidden recovery partition as well. As I have upgraded to windows 8.1. So I think I should have a new hidden recovery partition
for Windows 8.1. I think I can above thing my other way. If I create new set of DVDs by going to control panel>recovery> file history>System Image Backup. It will create discs for windows 8.1. And I will able to restore system to windows
8.1 by these discs. And for windows 8 I have already discs. But these discs will only work by changing boot options(by choosing UEFI) and image recovery. And reset and refresh functions will not work then in such situation factory recovery partition
will become useless. Then such situation I should delete factory recovery partition as it is useless.
8. At beginnign I also tried AI recovery burner. After trying it for 2-3 days I came to know that AI recovery burner is not for windows 8. There should be a tutorial for these thing so that people like me not waste their time.I used a software named UNDELETE on my hidden recovery partition to recover it. I get some files by this software. Important thing is that I got a 2.84 GB file named 00eebc9d.rb in dir D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unknown Application\.rb.
This file may be useful. Please suggest me how can I use these files to reset and refresh my OS. I used some dir commands as follows to get list of these files:
dir /s >f:\list.txt
dir /s /a:s >f:\list2.txt
Some files were system files so these file were not shown by first dir command. So I used second dir command.
Output of dir /s >f:\list.txt
Volume in drive D is DATA
Volume Serial Number is 9A82-D42B
Directory of D:\recovered1
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> $Extend
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> Files Detected by their Signatures
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> Recovery
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> System Volume Information
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> $RmMetadata
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> $TxfLog
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 17:36 65,536 $TxfLog.blf
29-07-2014 17:36 10,485,760 $TxfLogContainer00000000000000000001
18-04-2014 00:18 10,485,760 $TxfLogContainer00000000000000000002
3 File(s) 21,037,056 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> Firefox
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> Internet Explorer
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> Pick an app
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> Unkown Application
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> Windows Photo Viewer
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Firefox
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .xml
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Firefox\.xml
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 1,091 00000150.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 1,336 005f05b0.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 1,091 005f05b8.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 488 015c7e34.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 472 015d68fd.xml
29-07-2014 18:59 472 015d6bc3.xml
6 File(s) 4,950 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Internet Explorer
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .gif
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Internet Explorer\.gif
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:01 2,428 003aca99.gif
29-07-2014 19:01 814 0047c75d.gif
29-07-2014 19:01 472 00b2846d.gif
3 File(s) 3,714 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .cab
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .ico
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app\.cab
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 17,317,845 000c98e2.cab
29-07-2014 18:59 92,631,005 0027defd.cab
29-07-2014 18:59 7,539 00334cf3.cab
29-07-2014 18:59 15,731 0066bf8e.cab
4 File(s) 109,972,120 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Pick an app\.ico
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 4,534 0027d8d6.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 4,534 0027d8df.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 766 0027d8eb.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 766 0027d8ee.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 766 0027d8f2.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 4,534 0027dbef.ico
29-07-2014 18:59 10,134 0027dbfb.ico
7 File(s) 26,034 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .ogg
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .rb
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application\.ogg
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 194,667 00369b71.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 173,149 0036b2a1.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 13,178 0036b527.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 19,244 0036e009.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 169,220 0036e18a.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 114,800 0036f031.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 22,325 0037003d.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 42,628 003703fd.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 319,493 00370bc2.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 68,812 00373cfa.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 89,541 00373e29.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 65,697 00375384.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 42,955 00376d11.ogg
29-07-2014 18:59 85,254 0037847f.ogg
14 File(s) 1,420,963 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unkown Application\.rb
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:05 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:01 3,058,238,593 00eebc9d.rb
1 File(s) 3,058,238,593 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .jpg
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .png
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer\.jpg
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 12,296 0027dbce.jpg
29-07-2014 18:59 41,093 003933da.jpg
29-07-2014 18:59 25,067 00396fae.jpg
29-07-2014 18:59 2,303 003c5891.jpg
4 File(s) 80,759 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Windows Photo Viewer\.png
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 18:59 64,902 0035b639.png
29-07-2014 18:59 530 0039c185.png
29-07-2014 18:59 556 003be59e.png
29-07-2014 18:59 1,023 003ed468.png
29-07-2014 18:59 1,704 003f1ec0.png
29-07-2014 18:59 624 003f252a.png
29-07-2014 18:59 13,777 0043a2c0.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,897 00441e87.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,915 00442a6c.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,973 00442b91.png
29-07-2014 18:59 468 004433ca.png
29-07-2014 18:59 363 00443501.png
29-07-2014 18:59 238 00443be0.png
29-07-2014 18:59 331 00443fd9.png
29-07-2014 18:59 457 004442ad.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,868 004444a7.png
29-07-2014 18:59 268 004446af.png
29-07-2014 18:59 280 004448d1.png
29-07-2014 18:59 257 004449f1.png
29-07-2014 18:59 2,158 00b962d1.png
29-07-2014 18:59 54,191 016a8a54.png
29-07-2014 18:59 4,224 017350e3.png
29-07-2014 18:59 4,241 01735f08.png
23 File(s) 162,245 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:06 <DIR> ..
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> Logs
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> WindowsRE
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\Logs
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\WindowsRE
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\System Volume Information
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> .
29-07-2014 19:08 <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Total Files Listed:
65 File(s) 3,190,946,434 bytes
65 Dir(s) 178,172,325,888 bytes free
dir /s /a:s >f:\list2.txt
Volume in drive D is DATA
Volume Serial Number is 9A82-D42B
Directory of D:\recovered1
17-04-2014 23:37 2,560 $AttrDef
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $BadClus
17-04-2014 23:37 655,680 $Bitmap
17-04-2014 23:37 8,192 $Boot
17-04-2014 23:37 67,108,864 $LogFile
17-04-2014 23:37 262,144 $MFT
17-04-2014 23:37 4,096 $MFTMirr
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Secure
17-04-2014 23:37 131,072 $UpCase
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Volume
10 File(s) 68,172,608 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $ObjId
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Quota
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Reparse
01-05-2014 09:24 0 $UsnJrnl
4 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata
17-04-2014 23:37 0 $Repair
1 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog
17-04-2014 23:37 100 $Tops
1 File(s) 100 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\Logs
30-04-2014 06:12 1,336 Reload.xml
1 File(s) 1,336 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\Recovery\WindowsRE
18-06-2013 20:38 3,170,304 boot.sdi
29-04-2014 17:13 1,091 ReAgent.xml
26-04-2014 23:06 255,077,005 Winre.wim
3 File(s) 258,248,400 bytes
Directory of D:\recovered1\System Volume Information
18-04-2014 00:19 20,480 tracking.log
1 File(s) 20,480 bytes
Total Files Listed:
21 File(s) 326,442,924 bytes
0 Dir(s) 178,172,325,888 bytes free
Kindly guide me how can I use my hidden recovery partition to reset and refresh by use of these files. -
How do I restore a Windows Backup Server backup recovery partition?
I'm trying to test restoring a backup from our real server on a temp server.
First, I was surprised it can't do a restore to a smaller drive because the original server is only 1/3 full (it wants to restore all the empty bytes too).
Also it appears it wants to see that target partitions are already created.
It wants to restore recovery to an EXISTING recovery partition and OS to an existing OS partition all with exact sizes.
What if the old system died and I had to go to something new?
Do I have to preinstall 2012 R2 on a bare drive so it creates the partitions?
I've been down this path before, if it's not byte for byte match (offsets and all) it won't boot.
I'm pretty sure I could restore just the OS partition and then do a Windows Repair which would move the master boot record onto the OS drive. But that seems wrong.
What's the proper way to restore?
Is Windows Backup Server to limiting?Hi,
1. When trying to recover a partition, it requires a same or larger target partition. If you only backup data, there is no size limitation of the target partition.
2. We need an operation system to do the recovery. However you can perform a Bare Metal Backup so it could be restored without operation system - but it may force to backup more than partition C.
If you have any feedback on our support, please send to [email protected] -
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,
AlabHi,
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
409640 7813365344 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
7813774984 262151
7814037135 32 Sec GPT table
7814037167 1 Sec GPT header
I just did a diskutil list for my CarbonCopyClone HDD, I know it has a Recovery partition (it gives you an option to make one).
See the 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
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS CarbonCopyClone_SSD 1.0 TB disk3s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 784.2 MB disk3s3
4: Apple_HFS CCC_WinClone 450.0 GB disk3s4
5: Apple_HFS CarbonCopyClone_HDD 1.5 TB disk3s5
There are TWO Recovery HD listed here: on my startup disk0 and on CarbonCopyClone disk3.
And nothing for TimeMachine disk2.
So I'm still puzzled: how do I get TimeMachine to have a Recovery partition on it?
I definitely used to have one.
Alan -
Equium will not boot - how to access Recovery partition?
Hi, my sister has a 2008 Equium A200-1V0 with Vista 32-bit which will not boot (probably due to virus rootkit damage). It loads the BIOS but then goes straight to black screen with flashing cursor.
F8 does not work.
F2 goes to Phoenix TrustedCore Setup utility. The Toshiba hard drive and CD-ROM drive are listed in Main and Boot in the correct order.
Using F12 I can get it to boot from a Win7 64-bit repair disc I burned using my laptop.
However, this does not recognise the OS nor any image or restore points (because it is 64-bit) but it will load Command Prompt.
In *Command Prompt*, I can start Notepad and when I click File/ Open and double click on Computer it shows 4 Hard drives as follows:
Local Disk (C:)
Data (D:) 42 GB free of 54.5 GB
WinRE (E:) 1.11 GB free of 1.46 GB
Boot (X:) 29.0 MB free of 31.5 MB (which is used by the Repair disc)
So the C: drive is listed but without capacity.
*CHKDSK*
chkdsk c: /r and press return
"The type of the file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
*Running TESTDISK*
Analysis:
Partition Start End Size in Sectors
1 P Windows RE(store) 0 32 33 191 89 26 3072000
2 * HPFS - NTFS 191 89 27 7477 118 1 117051392
3 P HPFS - NTFS 7477 118 2 14592 190 62 114307072 (data)
* = Primary bootable
When doing Quick Search and then P - list files, of the second partition it reports:
"Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
So what I would like to do is boot up from Windows Restore on the E drive.
My question is to any Toshiba experts: When F8 does not work how do I use the recovery partition???
Laptop is:
Part Number : PSAF5E-002005KS
Key Features
- Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2310
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
- DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) drive
- 2,048 (1,024 + 1,024) MB RAM (667 MHz)
- 15.4 " WXGA TFT display 1,280 x 800*UPDATE*:
I have borrowed a genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit dvd and booted up with that.
Clicked on "Repair your Computer"
Then it goes striaght to System recovery Options but no Operating System is shown. Click Next.
Then:
"Choose a Recovery Tool.
Operating system: Unknown on (Unknown) Local Disk"
*Startup Repair*
This takes 1 second.
Root cause found
System volume on disk is corrupt.
*System Restore*
"X - To Perform an offline System Restore, you must specify which Windows installation you would like to restore.
For example, if the installation located in "C:\Windows" should be restored enter the following command:
rstrui.exe /OFFLINE:C:\Windows "
*Windows Complete PC Restore*
" No valid backup locations could be found.
Windows cannot find a backup on the hard disks or DVDs on this computer. Attach the correct hard disks or insert the last backup DVD and then start the restore process again. "
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows cannot check for memory problems...[snip]
*Command Prompt*
This is working fine.
CHKSDK C:
The type of file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.
The HDD is 120 GB and is split by Toshiba into 3 partitions.
C:\ drive (56GB) is bootable with Windows - this is corrupted.
D:\ drive (55 GB) has all Data - fully accessible
E:\ drive is CDROM
F:\ drive (1.46 GB) is the WinRE recovery partition - this is fully accessible.
So my question still remains: can I recover my Toshiba laptop using this recovery partition?
PLEASE NOTE: as mentioned above, pressing F8 during boot has no effect and therefore Safe Mode cannot be accessed. -
How do I setup the HP recovery partition on my HP Pavilion DV7-1232nr
How do I setup the HP recovery partition on a drive that has been erased of it’s HP tools recovery partition like in the recovery patition size needed on the harddrive and how it should be setup like in should it be set as Active,Logical,Primery,etc etc etc
I get the following errow when trying to restore from my recovery disks I made with HP phone support
Error ---> this pc is not supported by the system recovery disks. you will not be able to continue to recover this system this these disks.
go figure ) > :
system
HP Pavilion DV7-1232nr
HD 320 gig
Ram 4 gig with 3.75 gigs still free
CPU AMD Turion X2 doul core mobile RM-74 2.20 GHZ
HP Windows 7 Home 64 bit Full install
This question was solved.
View Solution.The Recovery partition is recreated when doing a successfull reinstall from the Recovery Disks.
Enter BIOS by tapping away at the F10 key immediately after powering on. Is all system info complete there?
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Can't recover from recovery partition with OneKey after disastrous Win 8.1 upgrade
I have a U410 that is only a couple months old. A few days ago I decided to take the plunge and accept the free upgrade to Windows 8.1.
Big mistake.
SInce the upgrade, I've had a slew of problems ranging from programs not running to hard disk integrity checks every time I restart the computer. I've already refreshed the computer (wiping all programs), with no luck. Now I'd like to restore from the recovery partition. However, when I press the onekey button I get the same behavior described here, and can't boot to system recovery mode.
Based on some of the posts in this thread, I gather that any change in the partition sizes pretty much breaks the onekey software, but that sometimes restoring the factory partition sizes can cause it to work again. I haven't knowingly made any changes to the partition sizes, yet looking at disk management I am seeing more partitions than I would have expected (not sure if they were there before the upgrade since I've never looked before). I would like to know if there's any way I can regain access to the recovery partition--and if not, what my best bet is for undoing the damage the 8.1 upgrade did to my OS.
Thanks in advance for your help.Dang, that's dissapointing. I did see it mentioned elsewhere that recovery discs are only $16 though. I had thought they'd be $100+ or something, so that aint so bad. I'll get on that.
Thanks for your time -
Where in a lion install disc made from the installer can I find a bootable file with disk utilities?
I downloaded lion a few hours ago and installed.
I have 4 large hardrives (1.5TB) arranged in 8 partitions to allow me to work on a varied group of projects. I have some projects that need to be worked on with software running under Tiger, some with software that runs under leopard, some with snow leopard, and now Lion. I own multiple copies of software and multiple user pack system install discs.
On a regular basis, I back up chunks of work on projects to external discs, and special backup areas on one of my drives. I don't like using time machine because I am running many operating environments on my mac pro and I don't ever want to be tied to one operating environment for important functionality, and I want to maximize the open space on my hard drives.
Several partitions involve large video files. I am working on them in various versions of final cut, premiere and imovie. Because I have to use the same software versions my different clients are running, I don't want to move all the files " up" to a modern version. It would be professional suicide to stop accommodating my various clients. I say this to try to head off being told to make my clients upgrade. There are too many different clients and they are not going to replace all their equipment.
On these volumes with video files, I often fill them up and copy off what I need to backup before I erase and do a clean install. I also run VM Fusion and windows XP. I absolutely do not want to have a Recovery HD partition left on the drive when I erase or influencing the other partions using different OS versions on that same drive.
Is there a bootable disc on the installer disk I just made? Can I use the disk utilities to do a low level erase on the lion volume that will remove the recovery partition?
Can I go back to booting from Snow Leopard and erasing the Recovery partition with the drive partition that way? Will the Snow Leopard utility take out the Lion HD recovery partition?
I am used to erasing my drives and rebuilding my machine and I believe it is the right way to use my multiple drives in my workflow. Now that I've got this invisible recovery partition, can you help me remove it and create a bootable disc that includes disk utilities?I assume the unix pdisk command will show you want is going on.
You may not have a big worry. There have always been a lot of hidden partitions. Disk Utility under 10.4.11 reports this drive has three (my now report four ) partitions, when pdisk reports that there are 15.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
Press return when done typing sudo pdisk -l
-l include a lower case L
The sudo command will ask for your administration password. No characters will appear when typing your password. Press return when done typing. sudo stands for super user do. It's just like root. Be careful.
mac $ sudo pdisk -l
Password:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk0'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 120
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 176
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 232
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800
8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
9: Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 149319048
10: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 2254440 @ 263968 ( 1.1G)
11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 6617188 @ 149321002 ( 3.2G)
12: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 146538496 @ 2780552 ( 69.9G)
13: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 363298 @ 155938190 (177.4M)
14: Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 1824 (128.0M)
15: Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 2518408 (128.0M)
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 (74.5G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: 23 @ 64, type=0x1
2: 36 @ 120, type=0xffff
3: 21 @ 176, type=0x701
4: 34 @ 232, type=0xf8ff -
How to make a new recovery partition on a 600 series
Well I thought this was worth a mention as nobody seems to have said it could be done.
Having just got the cheep 600 series unit working I wanted to restore the RESTORE PARTITION.
Mostly to get the F11 function working as it should after fitting a Brand new HDD.
The OS is WIN7x64 but I would guess the same could be said for others.
It is actually quite simple and perhaps has been described in better detail elsewhere but here we go.
Oh, I actually did this a few different ways and got some very interesting results,
including one that needed the F11 pressing before boot or it would fail to load windows after the recovery.
Nice little hidden security function.! But breaks the restore ability !!!
If you want to disable the F11 recovery option then you need to rename a file.
Perhaps not disable but MakeFail !
So the way it seemed to work goes like this.
You will need your Original Restore DVD's (Cd's) for this if I did not assume that already.
With your new hard disk you need to partition it into three parts.
Either do it in the machine with a bootdisk (BartsPE) or similar
or for quickest results pop the drive into a caddy and do it on a live machine.
If you need to be told how to partition the disk then ask. (Right click My Computer, select Manage)
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
NOTICE: >> THIS IS GOING TO DESTROY ANY DATA ON THAT DRIVE ...
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Make these in order.
partition 1 = 100 meg PRIMARY, UNFORMATTED, NO LABEL, NO DRIVE LETTER.
partition 2 = ??? PRIMARY, UNFORMATTED, NO LABEL, NO DRIVE LETTER
(calculate size from remaining space less partition3 size)
partition 3 = PRIMARY, NTFS, ANY LABEL, ANY DRIVE LETTER.
(This needs to be large enough for ALL your recovery disks plus a little more.)
So if you only have one Restore DVD make the third partition about 5gigs.
If you have two 10 gigs and 3Dvd's perhaps 14 or 15 Gigs.
Add some more space if you want to store more stuff on that partition.
Format the 3rd partition, then copy in order ALL the restore disks to the NEW drive.
You can also copy other files to this partition if you want.
Best to keep it tidy and make a new folder for your own stuff.
Stuff like AV installers, Updates, Application installers.
The Recovery process will HIDE ALL folders on the recovery drive but they will still be there.
So that should be it.
You have got 3 partitions?,
You copied all the DVD's to the 3rd one,?
NOW..
Reinstall the drive to the machine.
Put in the "Recovery 1 DVD" and boot the machine.
When asked if you want to use the recovery from disk or harddrive,, select DVD Disk.
Once the install is complete the F11 button on bootup should now work error free.
Well ,, it did for me...
Brand new hard drive with a full system recovery option made from only the Restore DVD's.
I did another system restore via the F11 button just for the fun of it.
Just so you know the system restore takes less than a quarter of the time from HDD over DVD.
I was going to check the process of making another NEW set of DVD recovery disks from the NEW drive,
but perhaps someone else will do that and report back on their progress.
Hv.
I never knew who HP were until my workshop got filled with faulty equipment. !! I know who Apple are now too.Depending on the software you use to clone will it copy the recovery partition or not ex SuperDuper does not.
You can always reinstall the OS on top of what you have. This will re-create the recovery partition without touching your user files, documents, photos, bookmarks etc. After that you may have to run the software update to get the latest OSX update 10.10.1
One draw back to no recovery partition is iCloud>Find my Mac will not be functional.
From option command R on start or from an installer SD card you created.
Recovery http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 -
How to restore a Time machine backup and get a recovery partition?
Hi,
I'm quite confused!
I restored from a Time Machine backup and then setup boot camp (and removed that partition a while back) and now I don't have a recovery partition. (Can't enable File Vault and
bash-3.2# diskutil list /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 87.4 GB disk0s2
My new MacBook Pro didn't come with any CDs.
Apparently I need the recovery partition to reinstall Lion from the internet.
"Recovery HD offers on-disk recovery tools, allows you to restore from Time Machine backups, reinstall OS X Lion over the Internet..."
The recommended solution from Apple seems to be reinstall with your OSX 10.6 CD (which I don't have) and then upgrade to Lion (which seems like a PITA).
Info from : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4649
What process should I follow to restore my recovery partition and apply the current state of the machine from a backup?
(the process should not involve anything I don't have, like USB memory sticks, Lion CDs, etc....)
Supplementary questions which are only relevant if the answer is "you can't" (which would seem to be a major bug!) :
Or is there a clever method to install a recovery partition onto an existing disk (which clearly has space for it)? I have searched for it but all the results I found have either not mentioned that it works without reinstalling but look like it's needed, or do say "reinstall".
If I install Lion to an external disk, can I boot from that and use the recovery disk assistant tool to restore the partition to my internal disk? (Which I assume I'll need to do to get FileVault to work) ?
Thanks,
MaxMaxs-MacBook-Pro:Applications max$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 87.4 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *136.2 MB disk2
1: Apple_partition_map 30.7 KB disk2s1
2: Apple_Driver_ATAPI 2.0 KB disk2s2
3: Apple_HFS Recovery Disk Assistant 136.2 MB disk2s3 -
How can i install Windows XP on IBM T43 from recovery partition ?
I have a secret recovery partition with some GB in size on my IBM T43 laptop and i want to install Windows XP from it.
How can i do that? I will loose all my data from HDD or I can keep D: partition intact ?
What are the steps i should follow to install XP from secret hdd recovery partition ? Are the drivers also on this partition ?
Thanks a lot !
Solved!
Go to Solution.Hello,
Perhaps one of the discs is not labeled correctly. Try going through all of them to see if one of them works.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
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