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    Does anyone know how to move the Lenovo Recovery Partition onto a different HDD?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by kettlecorn, Sep 29, 2012.

  1. kettlecorn

    kettlecorn Notebook Consultant

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    I have the stock lenovo harddrive and it has the factory recovery partition in it. I want to keep it because of various reasons. I'm switching to a different HDD, how would I go about keeping this recovery partition?

    I dont want to clone the entire drive.... is there a way to just clone that particular partition? Or is there a way to move it onto an USB and then move it back to the HDD?
     
    kettlecorn, Sep 29, 2012
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    You can't clone just the recovery partition you won't have the MBR/boot partition to point to it...why not just clone all partitions..
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Sep 29, 2012
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  3. VanessaMeacham

    VanessaMeacham Newbie

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    HI ! Gparted should resize your NTFS partition without any problems. It does mine.
    The recovery discs will not help much in a dual boot situation because when you run them they will wipe all partitions on the disc, reinstall the recovery partition and restore windows from the recovery partition. That is just the way they work.
    Recovering from the restore partiton only will leave all your partitions as is. Meaning it will not blow your Linux install away. :)
     
    VanessaMeacham, Sep 29, 2012
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