Original specs prior SSD clone & upgrade: https://www.asus.com/Laptops/K55VJ/specifications/
My old cloned (to SSD) platter drive containing the (now deleted) recovery partition is placed in a caddy in the optical drive position.
Having SSD image backups (Macrium Reflect) I did an experiment. I created a USB recovery stick with “Create a recovery drive” (*1) and selected “Delete the recovery partition from your PC” to find out which, if any, recovery partition had been created when I upgraded to Win 10 1903. A mysterious new OEM partition at the SSD drive end did appear after the 1903 upgrade.
To my great surprise the old platter drive (not booted from) recovery partition was deleted despite having booted from the SSD. It went from hidden to becoming an empty lettered partition (F).
Since this (20GB) partition is on the inactive platter drive I believe chances of recovery is good since it isn't being touched by anything. The only thing that has touched it ever is the “Create a recovery drive” -> “Delete the recovery partition from your PC”. I suspect this 20 GB holds the 2013 OEM ASUS software that I don't ever expect to want to have use for again, but still I hate having lost it before being able to archive it.
Found this tool.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/disk-recovery/accidentally-deleted-recovery-partition.html
Chances of this working?
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*1) “Create a recovery drive” instructions here
https://www.ubackup.com/windows-10/create-windows-10-recovery-disk-4348.html
My old cloned (to SSD) platter drive containing the (now deleted) recovery partition is placed in a caddy in the optical drive position.
Having SSD image backups (Macrium Reflect) I did an experiment. I created a USB recovery stick with “Create a recovery drive” (*1) and selected “Delete the recovery partition from your PC” to find out which, if any, recovery partition had been created when I upgraded to Win 10 1903. A mysterious new OEM partition at the SSD drive end did appear after the 1903 upgrade.
To my great surprise the old platter drive (not booted from) recovery partition was deleted despite having booted from the SSD. It went from hidden to becoming an empty lettered partition (F).
Since this (20GB) partition is on the inactive platter drive I believe chances of recovery is good since it isn't being touched by anything. The only thing that has touched it ever is the “Create a recovery drive” -> “Delete the recovery partition from your PC”. I suspect this 20 GB holds the 2013 OEM ASUS software that I don't ever expect to want to have use for again, but still I hate having lost it before being able to archive it.
Found this tool.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/disk-recovery/accidentally-deleted-recovery-partition.html
Chances of this working?
~
*1) “Create a recovery drive” instructions here
https://www.ubackup.com/windows-10/create-windows-10-recovery-disk-4348.html
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