Moving recovery partitions - problem

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  1. Posts : 20
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    Moving recovery partitions - problem


    Hi, so I recently bought a new samsung ssd 970 evo plus with 1TB storage to upgrade my laptop, I have clean installed windows 10 but noticed the install is not as special as it used to be on my old kingston ssd. For example there was no oem stuff and the default name was always DESKTOP and some characters (used to be LAPTOP and characters), so I have formatted the main C :\ partition and applied the ASUS.swm image from the recovery partition of my old ssd and it's all fine, however there's this problem. When I use advanced startup in settings (or just restart while holding shift) I get redirected to windows recovery most likely from the old SSD because it has the ASUS recovery option (when i select cmd and it reboots to the winre ramdisk it does not show up there), so this indicates a weird issue where windows looks at 2 recovery partitions instead of the new one (probably caused by me applying the SWM image and keeping the old recovery partition?). So now I'd like to do something like this: Move 3 partitions (including recovery) from the old SSD to the new one. The partition table is basically the same as I have never split any of the disks into partitions, so it looks like EFI, C:\ and recovery on the samsung ssd (main disk) and EFI, C:\, Recovery, RESTORE, MyASUS on the old ssd. While installing windows on the new ssd I have removed the old one to not have 1 efi on the old ssd (basically if i ever removed the old SSD the OS on the new ssd would not boot) so I'm fine with removing the old ssd for good after this. I also wanna do this because I might upgrade to 11 soon and feel like something is gonna break, for example with the weird recovery behaviour, but I don't know where to begin from. Would also be best if I don't have to format the disk again because I already put stuff here. If I posted in the wrong thread please lmk asap so i can post it in the correct place. Thanks

    OS: Windows 10 22H2
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    You could have a look at the bcd entries.

    a disk management screenshot would be useful
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    SIW2 said:
    You could have a look at the bcd entries.

    a disk management screenshot would be useful
    https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...ad528e4fe2189&

    Disk 0 is the samsung, disk 1 is the kingston and disk 2 is my hdd (unrelated to this), note that the 1000mb partition after OS on the kingston is recovery, and 200mb after restore is MyASUS, 533mb on samsung is recovery too. Ignore how the 400gb partition on the disk 1 is "OS", my OS partition rn is on the samsung one and it's the 930gb one
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  4. Posts : 427
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    @matis1974
    What you did is not professional at all! You jump from one problem to the next.

    I would disconnect disk 1 and run a clean Installation of WIN11 on disk 0
    When everything is ok with your WIN11, reconnect disk 1 (WIN10) and run
    diskpart
    sel disk 1
    (the disk with WIN10)
    sel par 1
    format quick fs=fat32
    exit

    Do not delete partition 1
    Then run
    bcdboot E:\Windows /addlast

    Then you have a Dual-Boot System and you can decide when you stay with WIN11 alone and delete WIN10
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    See if you have \Recovery\BootMenu\somename.xml
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  6. Posts : 20
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    SIW2 said:
    See if you have \Recovery\BootMenu\somename.xml
    On the disk 0 there is just ReAgent.xml and on disk 1 it has ReAgent and ReCustomization

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    Pentagon said:
    @matis1974
    What you did is not professional at all! You jump from one problem to the next.

    I would disconnect disk 1 and run a clean Installation of WIN11 on disk 0
    When everything is ok with your WIN11, reconnect disk 1 (WIN10) and run
    diskpart
    sel disk 1
    (the disk with WIN10)
    sel par 1
    format quick fs=fat32
    exit

    Do not delete partition 1
    Then run
    bcdboot E:\Windows /addlast

    Then you have a Dual-Boot System and you can decide when you stay with WIN11 alone and delete WIN10
    I mean i don't wanna format the old disk 1, just somehow move the 3 partitions from it onto my new one then disconnect the old one for good to avoid future problems
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  7. Posts : 427
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    YOU DON'T have to format disk 1 ! Just the BOOT-Partition from disk 1
    That is, what the above command does!
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    Pentagon said:
    YOU DON'T have to format disk 1 ! Just the BOOT-Partition from disk 1
    That is, what the above command does!
    is it gonna be required if im gonna be removing it from the laptop for good tho?
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    matis1974 said:
    is it gonna be required if im gonna be removing it from the laptop for good tho?
    It doesn't disturb if you to boot from disk 0. The above command just removes the boot-files from disk 1. But the point is: You can always recreate that bootpartion easily. So do not delete partition 1!
    For the new installation on disk 0 it is required to remove it during the installation!
    See post #4

    Make it as easy as possible!
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    Pentagon said:
    It doesn't disturb if you boot from disk 0. But the point is: You can always recreate that bootpartion easily. Do not delete partition 1!
    For the new installation on disk 0 it is required to remove it during the installation!
    See post #4

    Make it as easy as possible!
    I think I'll leave it as a last resort option because of clean installing the OS
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