[SOLVED] Recovery Partition Deleted

[Shivam Raina]

I have an HP pavilion 15 cc129tx laptop. Recently I tried upgrading the storage from HDD to SSD. I inserted the existing HDD in the caddy removing the optical drive and added a new SSD in the HDD slot. I booted up the system from HDD in caddy, cloned partitions from HDD to SSD, then booted up again from SSD. Then I (foolishly) deleted the Recovery Partition from SSD and cleaned the HDD using diskpart.
Now my system doesn't boot up because it cannot find the recovery partition. What should I do?

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

unless you want to go through the trouble of trying to manually create a new partition and using CMD prompts to recreate the OS files there, which i wouldn't recommend;

i would just wipe the new SSD and perform a fresh OS install.
can also help by removing all of HP's bloatware garbage.

 

[Shivam Raina]

unless you want to go through the trouble of trying to manually create a new partition and using CMD prompts to recreate the OS files there, which i wouldn't recommend;

i would just wipe the new SSD and perform a fresh OS install.
can also help by removing all of HP's bloatware garbage.

What would be the most easy way of installing the OS again? I mean without obviously buying because the SSD already has the OS installed on it.

Also can you please tell what is the way of somehow restoring the recovery partition so that the system boots up fine to its last state?

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

What would be the most easy way of installing the OS again? I mean without obviously buying because the SSD already has the OS installed on it.

if you don't own a Win10 serial or have an old Win7\Win8 serial to upgrade from,
you would have to contact HP support and verify that you have registered the system with them for warranty purposes and ask for a new serial and installer package.

or buy a new serial for a non-OEM version from Microsoft or other.

can you please tell what is the way of somehow restoring the recovery partition so that the system boots up fine to its last state?

no.
pretty in-depth instructions for booting from an external device
and then accessing the disk to create partitions and create\modify OS data on it.
if it's even possible from outside of the OS environment i'm not entirely sure.
too much info for me to verify and bother typing in here.
you'd have to do your own research and find a tutorial elsewhere.

 

[Shivam Raina]

if you don't own a Win10 serial or have an old Win7\Win8 serial to upgrade from,
you would have to contact HP support and verify that you have registered the system with them for warranty purposes and ask for a new serial and installer package.

or buy a new serial for a non-OEM version from Microsoft or other.
no.
pretty in-depth instructions for booting from an external device
and then accessing the disk to create partitions and create\modify OS data on it.
if it's even possible from outside of the OS environment i'm not entirely sure.
too much info for me to verify and bother typing in here.
you'd have to do your own research and find a tutorial elsewhere.

Will these steps work for reinstalling the windows on ssd without having to contact HP or Microsoft?

1)On another machine download from Ms site the Media creation tool and create according to the instructions a bootable USB stick.

2) Boot it up ----> Repair windows--->command

3) now re-formnat the HDD in Cmd mode :

DISKPART

LIST DISK

SELECT DISK nn where nn is the HDD you want to install windows on

CLEAN

CREATE Partition Primary

LIST PARTITION

SELECT PARTION nn

FORMAT fs=ntfs quick

(Convert GPT ------> if you want GPT / UEFI boot)

EXIT



now re-boot the USB drive and install clean Windows -- it will be activated if you already activated your previous W10 version.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Then I (foolishly) deleted the Recovery Partition from SSD and cleaned the HDD using diskpart.
Now my system doesn't boot up because it cannot find the recovery partition. What should I do?

It's not missing recovery partition, that causes the problem. It is missing bootloader partition.
Recovery partition is used, when you want to boot into recovery environment. For normal boot into windows it is not required.

You have to recreate bootloader partition manually.
Boot from windows installation media into command prompt,
execute following commands and post screenshot (upload to imgur.com and post link)

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

list partition​

list volume​