deleted recovery partitions, how to create them again?

giotoff
giotoff Member Posts: 8 New User
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please help

i deleted the recovery partitions, thinking it was a single disk to gain space 

now i have 2 empty partitions, i tried to install windows again from the recovery cd 

it asked me if i wanted to refresh everything including the recovery partitions 

but an error wont let it hapen, i tried to format the partitions as ntfs 

but the recovery cd still not fixing my recovery partitions 

i would like to have them like before so i can refresh everything without the cd 

and possibly it will allow me to upgrade to 8.1 

i have an iconia w3-810  

i do have a self powered usb hub and dvd reader 

please help

Answers

  • Sharanji
    Sharanji ACE Posts: 4,328 Pathfinder
    The recovery partiton once deleted can only be restored at the repair center.
    You need to use the recovery disc to refresh or reset your tablet. The recovery partition cannot be restored wiht the recovery disc.
    if you wish you may go ahead and update your tablet to windows 8.1
     
     
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  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    See my reply in the other thread you posted the same question.

     

    ps that is not entirely true. If you pull a full system image backup using the included Microsoft tool, the image contains all of the partitions on the disk at that time. My big recovery drive is shut down but as I recall there were three partitions, one of which was 10GB so cannot put the image on the same flash drive as the recovery disk.

  • yuroktold1
    yuroktold1 Member Posts: 56

    Tinkerer

    if you can still boot windows, just use recimage.exe to create a full backup image (google  it) and be sure to create a recovery usb and keep 10gb of free disk space. I tend to go with this plan lately.

  • giotoff
    giotoff Member Posts: 8 New User

    this is what hapened 

    i when to disk partitioner believing all the partition were on a single disk 

    there were 4 partitions 400 mb     130 mb 30 gb and 100 mb efi sysrem partition 

    i deleted the first 2 which now are empty 

    i manage to by using the dvd to reinstall win 8 

    it took almost all the space on the 30 gb drive and it wouldn't upgrade to 8.1 

    finally i upgraded to 8.1 just by going to the microsoft store  for the 3rd time 

    after the upgrade i whent to diskpart  to format the 2 empty disk to ntfs since they where unallocated 

    and i noticed a fifth partition of 450 mb i dont recal making that partition 

    plus after the upgrade i noticed that almost half of the drive was empty 

    which i am very happy about but 

    i would like to be able to set everything the way it was, so i dont have to spend hours everytime to refresh 

    i tried deleting partitions once, but apparently they are separated disks, so they don't make the 30 gb larger 

    thank you all 

     

  • giotoff
    giotoff Member Posts: 8 New User

    there was not a 10 gb part on my tablet only a 400 mb and 130 mb 

  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    That sounds like one that has had the recovery partition converted to free space (28-30GB partition). That big one is also your C: drive. Now if you booted, it must be there.

     

    If you run diskmgmt.msc you should see three partitions (100mb EFI - for booting, 500MB recovery, and 28 (with 32GB SSD) "C:". If you have additional drives mounted (flash, microSD, etc) you should see them also.

     

    BTW Microsoft seems to be encryprting the C: drive by default.

  • yuroktold1
    yuroktold1 Member Posts: 56

    Tinkerer

    mine now has 2 recovery partitions after 8.1 upgrade. in diskmanagement one is shown on the very left (350mb), the other - on the very right -last - 400mb. never figured out which one it's safe to get rid of.

  • giotoff
    giotoff Member Posts: 8 New User

    here 

  • giotoff
    giotoff Member Posts: 8 New User

    as you can see i have 6 including my sd card 

    disks.png

  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    Looks like you have gotten two isolated sections, one of 401MB and another of 128MB (unallocated).

     

    The 100MB EFI and 450MB recovery are typical. The original recovery partition would have been 5-6GB.

     

    I would try to expand C: to use either or both or you could try to create drives from them.

  • giotoff
    giotoff Member Posts: 8 New User

    my only option is to shrink volume 

    i did created volumes but they are so small i cant even put a movie on it 

    the thing is how can i use those spaces to restore recovery's on it 

    how to tell winows to use those partitions for recovery instead of using the c drive?

  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    In that case I'd back up anything I wanted to keep and the have Windows do a full clean install & have it reformat the disk to a maximum size for C:

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