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I have upgraded the hard disk in a Samsung laptop and would like to restore the "Press F4 for recovery" partition.

My new disk has three partitions, System, Windows, and Recovery. I did a dd of the recovery partition from the old hard disk to the new. I also set the diag flag on the new hard disk. F4 recovery still is not working.

TLDR: I mapped my new disk like my old disk with the exception of exact sizes. I did the recover partition from old to new via LiveCD. F4 recovery does not work.

Giacomo1968
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user974896
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When I need to migrate a HDD to SSD. I use the Samsung Data Migration Software. It's a great tool for moving all your partitions.

Honk
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You will need to use dd to do a full drive copy to this one and then use the recovery, as it sounds by doing only one partition, the MBR isn't being copied correctly, preventing the recovery from working.

user88311
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