04-14-201305:41 AM - last edited on 03-05-202411:48 PM by ROGBot
Hi guys
I have problem to recover windows 8.
When my g75vw was new i installed windows 8 and made a clean copy to a extern hdd from recovery partition. I just made a copy/paste. Then i installed some widnows 7 but now i want to install my original win8. When i installed windows 7 my recovery win8 partition dissapeard from computer and now when i putt my extern hdd with windos 8 recovery i start with the windows 8 loggo and click on recover my system and after that i receive a information that some files are missing and i can not install widnows.
hi @Fixon, how did you do your 'copy/paste' of w8 clean copy? what exactly did you back up from your recovery partition to your external hdd? from what i've read, the recovery partition should be inaccessible via windows / file explorer.
worst comes to worst, i suggest you do a clean install of w8. it's much easier to do that.
It is actually one friend who has copied the windows to externall hdd. Im not shore how. When i plugg in externall hdd its called recovery and when i oppen it there is a few folders such as "data". Its look like when you oppen one windows installation cd with right click. I would install win 8 but the problem is that now is my win 8 on externall hdd and i doesnt work 😕
I talk to him. When windows 8 was installed there was a questiom if user would like to burn recovery dvd or to safe recocery om externall hdd. I think that the problem is when new win 7 was installed, a recocery partition with win 8 is deleted.
that sounded like the layout of a recovery partition. you're probably right, the hidden partition that actually stored the installation .wim file might be deleted during the w7 installation process. can you check through disk management if there is a (hidden/inaccessible) recovery / restore partition in your stock hdd? if it's not there, then imo you cannot do anything useful with that external hdd.