How to Copy HP Recovery Partition to New Hard Drive

HP Recovery Partition Clone Software

To clone HP recovery partition to a new SSD or HDD effectively and securely, you can turn to EaseUS Todo system backup software, an excellent data backup and restore, copy and clone tool. With a simple wizard-like interface, you can easily clone Windows 10 to smaller SSD, migrate OS to SSD/HHD, clone GPT disk to MBT disk, and more.

What's more, this is also a fast and flexible utility for file backup, disk/partition backup, Outlook backup, cloud backup, as well as the system backup. 

Why Need to Move HP Recovery Partition to New Hard Drive

HP recovery partition, provided by the supplier, is a particular partition on the system disk and shows as Recovery (D). It includes some system backup image files to restore the system to the factory settings when something goes wrong with the system. The Recovery (D:) drive can be seen in Windows Explorer as a usable drive; you should not attempt to store files in it. Otherwise, the system recovery process will fail.

You may need to clone HP recovery partition to new hard drive due to the following reasons.

• Upgrade system disk: When you get a new SSD or a larger HDD and want to move OS to SSD, you have to clone HP recovery partition together.
• HP Recovery Partition protection: In HP computers, this recovery partition is normally created on the system drive. But if the entire disk goes down, you can't resort to the recovery partition to restore the operating system. So to avoid such worst case, it’s necessary for you to copy HP Recovery Partition to new hard drive.

Besides, as the recovery partition on HP computer takes up much space, which accelerates your system disk space consumption and slows down your computer. Therefore, to fix the low space problem, you may need to move HP Recovery Partition to a new hard drive.

How to Copy HP Recovery Partition to New Hard Drive

While facing one of the circumstances mentioned above, do you know how to copy HP recovery partition to a new hard drive? Now, download EaseUS Todo Backup and follow the guides below to copy clone HP recovery partition to a new hard drive in an effective way. 

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Todo Backup and click "Tools" at the top right corner, you can see clone and other utilities.

Step 2. Choose the source disk or partition as well as the target disk. (Make sure the space of the target disk is larger than that of the source disk or partition.)

Step 3. The clone would permanently wipe out all data on the target disk/partition. If you have backup your data in advance, just click "Continue."

Step 4. Click "Proceed" to start cloning.

The Bottom Line

In a word, if you prefer an all-in-one solution to move your recovery partition to a new drive, using a disk cloning feature in reliable backup software like EaseUS Todo Backup is a smart choice. Don't hesitate and let it help you now.