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    Setting up SSD with recovery partition on laptops without optical drive

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by hwa1201, Jan 14, 2011.

  1. hwa1201

    hwa1201 Notebook Evangelist

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    I got asus ul20a and it has recovery partition on the HDD since it doesnt have an optical drive.
    So I want to upgrade to ssd, but how would I be able to use/transfer the recovery partition to ssd?
    Any suggestions?
     
    hwa1201, Jan 14, 2011
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    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    You can clone the partition to an external USB disk, an easy way to do this is to use gparted from an ubuntu CD.

    You can also use the windows backup utility to make a system image to a USB drive.

    Some of the newer machines come with a recovery utility that will let you back up to an empty USB drive if you run it (at the first menu it gives you an option).
     
    ALLurGroceries, Jan 15, 2011
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    hwa1201 Notebook Evangelist

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    thx for the response,
    so from my understanding, i could just clone the recovery partition from hdd
    to usb disk then put the cloned partition to a new SSD?
     
    hwa1201, Jan 17, 2011
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    You could, but I'm not sure I'd waste all that space on an SSD for a recovery partition. I'd just back it up somewhere until you need it.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Jan 17, 2011
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