samsung F4 recovery is not working after copy into ssd

i have installed new ssd(samsung 840 pro) into np880z5e through acronis true image software i took the all partitions backup including all recovery partitions and restored the partitions into ssd successfully. its booted smoothly and faster without any issue. Later i have noticed the F4 recovery not working and tried reinstalling samsung recovery sw and in installation its showed recovery partition doesn't exist. Bit surprised with error message but recovery partition is exist.


DISKPART> list partition

There is no disk selected to list partitions.
Select a disk and try again.

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Reserved 128 MB 17 KB
Partition 2 Recovery 499 MB 129 MB
Partition 3 System 300 MB 628 MB
Partition 4 Primary 200 GB 928 MB
Partition 5 Recovery 23 GB 200 GB
Partition 6 Recovery 1024 MB 224 GB

DISKPART> list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 C NTFS Partition 200 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 1 Windows RE NTFS Partition 499 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 2 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 300 MB Healthy System
Volume 3 SAMSUNG_REC NTFS Partition 23 GB Healthy Hidden
Volume 4 SAMSUNG_REC FAT32 Partition 1024 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART>

please advise how to fix it??

 

Hi everfor,

3rd party tools like Acronis destroy the F4 link when they clone Recovery partitions (or restore image backups of Recovery partitions). Some members have reported success using Clonezilla instead (actually just one so far ).

But the recommended approach is to use Recovery itself, which has two features for this purpose, as discussed in the thread linked below:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/samsung/721457-upgrade-hd-ssd-windows-8-a.html

1) Create a backup of the Factory Image to a 32GB USB stick and select the Create Boot Disk option. This turns the USB stick into a self-contained, bootable Recovery with the factory image for your PC. After installing the new SSD, you boot this USB stick and have it re-partition the drive and install everything. Then keep the USB stick safe for future use. I recommend doing this regardless.

2) Install the new SSD in an external USB enclosure and use the Copy Disk function in Recovery to clone everything from your current HDD to the new drive. Then swap them afterwards. There is discussion about it in the Owners Lounge thread for your model, starting here. Keep reading from that post for further advice.

This question comes up almost daily (so far several times today already). It is particularly discussed at great length in that Owners Lounge thread, including a guide on the opening post (linked below).

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sam...e-np780z5e-np870z5e-np880z5e.html#post9135887

If you need your Recovery on the SSD, you'll have to swap the HDD back in first and start over. I am sorry, there really is no other way.

Otherwise just keep the original HDD safe and use the Windows installation you have now on the SSD -- or make a new clean install on it. You can delete the Recovery partitions on the SSD since you cannot use Recovery anyway (SAMSUNG_REC and SAMSUNG_REC2 -- NOT Windows RE tools).