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[SOLVED] HP Zbook G3 - Windows 10 dualboot

Feb 10, 2020
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My laptop is an HP Zbook G3, it has 2 ssd slots so I got a new ssd.
I want to move everything to the new drive so I can run linux on the original (smaller) drive.

I was not sure if I should clone or do a clean install so I decided to do a fresh Windows install on the new drive.
What I forgot is that I need the "HP Recovery" & "HP Tools" partitions from the original drive.

Is it possible to just add these partitions to the clean windows install or should I start over and clone the older one to the new drive?

Here is what my partitioning looks like.

View: https://imgur.com/a/rxX90GS
 
I would prefer to have the both of these partitions on the new drive alongside with the clean Windows install.
If that would not work, I will either try the pen drive backup or a fresh clone.