Recover an HP recovery partition from an offline drive
- by eric.chartier
I have a (semi)-dead hard drive with an HP recovery partition on it.
My goal is to
1-Buy a new hard drive (checked)
2-Copy the recovery partition to a drive ( dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=~/recovery.bak )
3-Make a new partition of 12000 mb with Windows 7
4-Copy back recovery partition to the new drive ( dd if=~/recovery.bak of=/dev/sdb1 )
Then press F11 when the laptop boots
however it does NOT work. Any idea why? It seemed quite fool proof...