BleepingComputer.com: Replacing Hard Drive - Factory Image Recovery

I went ahead and did a partition clone of only the recovery partition using Todo Easeus backup. I then did the a full factory recovery using the recovery disk (which was now available as an option on the new drive).

It appears that this worked perfectly!

Thank you so much for your help! You guys are awesome!

Is there any way to salvage the old drive or is it just shot now? Are there people who buy these things to refurb?

Many many thanks for letting us know exactly what you have done to successfully recover your partition and then the operating system!!!

That was certainly an easier method to employ than the one I would have suggested to clone! I will make a good note of this method for future suggestion on the forums. Thanks again!

I would suggest to you that it may well be worth your while to simply keep the old hard drive for its existing "factory restore" partition. You never know what may happen to your new hard drive: It may fail, and the failure be in the "factory restore" partition this time, and you will then have no way to recover. Otherwise, it goes in the rubbish bin (or recyclable electronic components collection of your local depot).

Best of luck!

Glad to see that the Todo Easeus backup worked. I'll have to keep that in mind that it can be used to clone the recovery like that as it was something I hadn't tried with it. I only used it to clone one partition drives.

I second keeping the drive as is since you never know. In my experience once they fail diagnostics they never get better.

This post has been edited by rotor123: 11 December 2011 - 06:01 PM