NP530U3C Hard Disk Failure - No way to Recover?

Hi, I have a Windows 7 NP530U3C which has had a hard disk failure. The disk is junked basically, Windows won't load citing an I/O error. If I try to use F4 to get into Samsung Recovery Solution that just hangs on the Loading screen. I've removed the drive and tried to clone it/just the recovery partition but had a failure, again with an I/O error.

I've bought a new HDD and have started a clean Windows install from scratch. However I did do a complete backup a few months back onto an external HDD and all the files are there. However, this needs SRS to use these files to restore. And on a virgin Windows installation with my new HDD there is no recovery partition. And I can't clone it off my old drive as that won't work.

So i have a back up but I have no way of deploying it? Is that correct? I can continue with the new Windows installation from scratch but I'd prefer the easy option.

 

You can create a recovery partition using the USB Admin Tool.

This is discussed in various places. Use your favourite search engine to look for them.

John

 

Hi bagand96,

Sorry to hear about your HDD. Some of the most recent (of many) similar cases are discussed in the thread linked below. I suggest you read that thread (it's not very long) and follow the ongoing discussion there. I'll close this thread so we don't create more duplicates.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/samsung/758403-deleted-recovery-partition-but-have-hdd-backup.html