Deleted recovery partition

Ok... so i have a samsung NP470R5E-XD2AR, it came with windows 8 wich i didnt want to use so i did the not smart thing and deleted all partitions, including the recovery ones, and installed windows 7.

Long story short, i want to go back to windows 8, i used a partition recovery tool to recover the recovery partition but i only recovered the files, not the partition itself, so it obviosly does not work.

I tried to recreate the partitions on windows 7 and putting the files i recovered on them but that didnt do anything. Then i used EasyBCD to make them bootable and got to a screen of the recovery tool in wich it says "Please wait..." or something like that, but it just stays that way a few minutes and then restarts.

So now im asking for assistance from you guys that may know the solution so i dont have to keep trying to solve this blindly.

Thanks in advance.

 

If you wiped the disk, including Recovery partitions (of which your model had several) there really is nothing you can do. Samsung Recovery Solution (SRS) depends not just on the files, but an intact structure of a Recovery Boot partition (containing SRS software), a Recovery Data partition (containing the factory image) and a hidden F4 link in the partition table.

Even users who carefully made full image backups of their Recovery partitions, find that that is not enough if they have wiped their disk (or if they restore those image backups) because they've lost that F4 link, without which they cannot run Recovery.

What you need is Samsung's so-called Admin Tool, which allows you to re-partition a drive (with F4 link) and create working Recovery partitions. And then you need a factory image for your particular model which you can restore.

The Admin Tool can be created in Recovery, so if you know someone with a Samsung laptop (Win8 model like your own in order to have the same SRS version) you can create the Admin Tool as described in this post). And if you have the files making up the factory image, you can restore them manually. Basically you would follow the procedure described in this post which is how we backed up and restored recovery with older versions of SRS.

If you believe you have all the original partitions intact on the disk (at least six partitions on a standard Win8 disk with SRS6, as described here) I suppose you can try the tricks described in this post to see if you can boot Recovery -- and from there create the proper backups, which are needed to re-partition with a fully working Recovery.

You are looking at a lot of effort and no guaranteed result. In cases like this, I normally recommend to contact Samsung and have them re-image the drive for you -- which requires sending the computer in for service. Or you can have them send you a Recovery disc -- which is just a Windows OEM disc, not containing SRS.

 

Thanks for the reply. Yeah you say it is just as i imagined, a lot of effort and no guaranteed result. I thought i would give it a shot to see if there were any miraculous solution. I guess i'll try calling samsung for a recovery disc. Thanks again.