ferenews.blogg.se - february 2023

I’ve cloned over partitions from a PBD recovery image in EaseUs Todo created from the HDD though in DISKPART the partitions are listed as Extended, Logical and Primary whereas the HDD had OEM, Recovery, etc one of the partitions itself being a recovery image (~12GB large). I’m trying to upgrade a DELL laptop by replacing the 500GB HDD with a 120GB SSD.

Check the Disk Management to see witch drive letter has been assigned to the recovery partition.

If everything goes ok, you will receive the following message “ Diskpart successfully set the partition ID.

Set the type of the hidden partition to 07.

Remember the Type value, this will be handy if something goes wrong.

Type DISKPART> detail partition and verify that it is hidden.

Now, select the hidden partition (see step 1) DISKPART> select partition 1.

List all partitions: DISKPART> list partition.

Start DiskPart and select your disk: DISKPART> select disk 0.Start Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) on your computer and take a closer look at your hard disk.

It was tested on a Windows Vista machine with a Basic disk.ĭiskPart command line systax and parameters can be found here.

This quick step guide describes how to unhide the OEM/Recovery partition on your hard drive.