I have a Hp 15 from 2016 with Windows 10 home. I recently did a clean install of windows 10 around nov of 2017. Then it sat for awhile because I had another pc I was using more often. I decided to start using this one last week and loaded all my programs and updated the heck out of it. Then played several old video games on it. Halo 2 pc was one of those. It played great. The hdd is a hgst 1 tb which is very slow. So bought a samsung evo 860 500 gb ssd. I loaded the win 10 usb tool with latest version and booted up a fresh copy with it. But after doing some updates and loading programs everything is not the same as with the copy of win 10 on my 1 tb drive. Halo 2 plays windowed and graphics look awful. It will not let me update any drivers audio and graphics and just seems broken in general. That's a whole issue within itself. In the meantime I decided to clone my 1 tb os that works onto my new ssd.
I realized I couldn't use my standard method of system image to load the os onto my new ssd. So I used samsung's migration software and cloned the drive. It looked good after and everything works as it should. But, My recovery partition that allows you to go into recovery mode and make recovery media is not there. I looked in disk management and only see 100 mb reserved and C. On the 1 tb there are three partitions which the third says Recovery.
Two questions,
1 What's the easiest way to get the recovery partition onto my new drive? and does it require putting the 1 tb back in and re using the migration software?
2 And why would two clean installs of windows 10 behave differently??
Third, please don't ask that I use acronis or macrium, I have always used windows system images and software that comes with the drives and always works well. Just need that missing partition back. Thanks in advance.
I realized I couldn't use my standard method of system image to load the os onto my new ssd. So I used samsung's migration software and cloned the drive. It looked good after and everything works as it should. But, My recovery partition that allows you to go into recovery mode and make recovery media is not there. I looked in disk management and only see 100 mb reserved and C. On the 1 tb there are three partitions which the third says Recovery.
Two questions,
1 What's the easiest way to get the recovery partition onto my new drive? and does it require putting the 1 tb back in and re using the migration software?
2 And why would two clean installs of windows 10 behave differently??
Third, please don't ask that I use acronis or macrium, I have always used windows system images and software that comes with the drives and always works well. Just need that missing partition back. Thanks in advance.