[SOLVED] view recovery partition contents

[kep55]

My HP 15-bs0xx laptop has three partitions - EFI System; OS; Recovery per Disc Management.. The OS partition is NTFS format, the other two show no file system. Is there anyway to view contents of these two partitions?

 

[USAFRet]

EFI is the boot partition.
'Recovery' is what is sometimes created during a Windows update.

Neither of those are really user readable.

You could use a hex editor, but that doesn't really serve a purpose.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

The recovery partition contains the files necessary to restore the laptop to factory condition. DO NOT mess with this unless you have created the recovery media per the instructions you were given with the laptop.

 

[TerryLaze]

You can use testdisk, select the disk, select partition type intel, select [advanced] filesystem utils and select the partition you want to view you will get a list of all files.
If you want to copy files over or to do anything else look up some proper guide, actually don't even do the things I told you if you are unsure about anything, you can really screw up your disk.
Cancle that, testdisk will only allow you to take a copy of the partition as dd, it only displays a list of lost partitions or normal ones.

 

[fzabkar]

DMDE includes a freeware disc editor.

https://dmde.com/