HP recovery partition doesn't boot

Rellik1000 · July 2023

Hello all
I haven't built a rig in 20 years
I trashed picked a HP24c0117 with broken display but boots fine to hdmi.

I did a full factory recovery from the 512gb ssd.
I wanted to upgrade to a 1tb ssd.
Booting to hirenspe I created the 512 image,with aomei backupper to an external hdd then restored the image file to the new 1tb ssd.
I merged the unallocated space with the windows partition.

OK blah blah
The image to drive went well,Win11 boots and runs fine,I see three identical partitions and the larger windows partition on the new drive but the hp bios will not boot to the recovery partition on the new drive.
I wanted to keep the original recovery partition in tact.
I've been searching for a few days now .

What is bios looking for to flag it the recovery partition.
Thanks in advance

aiArtisan · July 2023

Hello Relikk, I understand you need some help. We need more information from you, could you please reply with:

1) Which motherboard mode Legacy-BIOS, UEFI-CSM, UEFI-nonCSM?
2) What is the PC year, desktop or laptop?
3) HDD, SSD 2.5", SSD M.2 SATA, SSD M.2 NVMe?
4) Hard Drive partition table MBR or GPT?
5) Aomei product tier Standard, Pro, Other?
6) Version of Windows, 7, 10, 11, Home, Pro, Enterprise?

7) Which clone method did you use, system clone, disk clone intelligent-sector, disk clone exact sector-by-sector?

8) "I trashed picked a HP24c0117". I don't know what this means. I can't imagine it means you are using a PC from a trashcan, that isn't something someone would do, so could you please help us understand that.

9) Please post a screenshot.

Hirens is a great utility, that I recommend to many people, however, it was made in 2018 (2 minor updates in 2020, 2021), and the applications inside of it are old. It is much safer to use the 2023 Aomei Backupper (BU), and Partition Assistant (PA) to perform these critical tasks. If you are new, use the standard BU PA USB creation method, if you are advanced, use Ventoy.

While it is beneficial to have a working bootable Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on your PC, this is not required. It is as good, or better to use a Win10 or Win11 USB, and use the same WinRE it has. In the future, if something goes wrong on your PC and you are not able to boot to Windows normally, you could probably boot to the WinRE on your Hard drive, however, sometimes that does not boot as well, and in that rare case, you will have to use a Win10, Win11 USB WinRE. Windows installation USB includes WinRE. If you are new, please download Win10 or Win11 media creation tool, if you are advanced, use Ventoy.

Thank you!!

Backupper WinPE USB:
Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary. Does not work with some monitors.

Partition Assistant WinPE USB:
Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary.

Aomei WinPE Builder 2.0 USB, includes: Partition Assistant, Backupper, Recuva, OSF Mount, CPU-Z, Bootice. Does not support any additional drivers, such as some internal NVMe disks.

Great free tools not from Aomei

Microsoft Windows 10 Official Download

Microsoft Windows 11 Official Download

Ventoy - bootable USB Creator

admin · July 2023

@Rellik1000, Sorry that our software currently can't handle the recovery partition. It will back up the recovery partition as a data partition. So, it doesn't have "recovery" properties after restore. We will optimize the situation after.
Maybe you can use AOMEI Backupper to back up your current system/data and create recovery environment.

HP recovery partition doesn't boot

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