This easy tutorial shows you hot setup a new GPT disk with those two required partitions -> Did you create the recovery drive in W8? Did you move the boot order such that the USB drive is above the Samsung drive in the boot order? Then, create a massive active primary partition (or multiple if you want) and use the recovery drive to restore windows on that partition.Īs for your second post above, my USB recovery drive is able to boot in UEFI mode with no problem.
On second thought, you should be able to get by with only backing up those first few partitions from the original disk and restoring them onto the new disk with all requisite partitions. Upon restore, you would have the option to determine how or if the partitions get resized, but if not, you could always expand the partition(s) after restore. I think the best way for you possibly is to backup the entire original drive (Macrium Free with its WinPE recovery disk) does this in one fell swoop, creating only one 25 GB file. For instance, when windows generates image files, it does so for 3 partitions, not just the system partition. So, when you attempt to restore, those partitions must exist, and all three partitions must be restored. I think during the install that those partitions won't be resized, but will just be overwritten. What I plan to do is just to keep all existing paritions intact (after hotfix) and let windows decide what to do with the existing "helper" partitions when I install the "clean" windows version.
So, I'm not sure how windows can handle it, but I think there may be enough tools out there, specifically ImageX (from MS) which could be used to restore the recovery on any drive.
But, the OEM recovery partitions contains a combination of files which Windows can use to restore (*.swm files), but also OKR-specific files. I plan to reinstall a clean version of windows over the existing system partition and am wondering how Windows 8 generated recovery drive (with copied recovery partition) can handle restoring the OEM version over the "clean" install, just in case I'm not satisfied with the bare version, or I miss something from the OEM version. In Windows 8, you need the EFI partition and reserve partitions in front of the system partition.
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