<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Restoring from the vendor's recovery stick on the old drive will most likely wipe out all of your data and programs -- it is typically a complete wipe and reinstall of the system. At this point since you cannot boot the original drive, you have the following options:<br></div> - Use the recovery stick to restore to the new drive, then rebuild your Linux install from scratch<br></div> - Manually install Windows on your new drive, manually copy data over from the old drive, then rebuild your Linux install from scratch<br><br></div>You just need to bite the bullet and rebuild from scratch. It sounds like too many changes have been made to be able to understand what state the drives/partitions are in, at least without physically sitting down at the system and debugging. Whatever you do, make sure to only do it on the new drive and leave the old one alone, except for copying data off of it.<br><div><div><div><div><br><br>> I mounted the Recovery partition and I am copying all the files
over to my HD.. maybe I can make a bootable CD with that, &
restore windows to the new drive..<br><br></div><div>No, you cannot do that. This is what got you into the situation to begin with. A plain copy of files to a new drive does not make it bootable -- you must either image it or do something else to install a boot sector, and that kind of thing is pretty undocumented for vendor recovery partitions.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>❧ Brian Mathis<br></div>@orev<br></div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 01/27/2015 09:31 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
> So your original partitions are not on place. Check if you have the<br>
> windows boot partition which is about 100 MB FAT and the windows<br>
> factory install which should be few gigabytes.<br>
</span>I know, my Windows recovery USB stick just arrived... and right before<br>
it did, I found this:<br>
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<a href="http://superuser.com/questions/193166/reinstall-windows-7-from-recovery-partition-on-a-dell-studio-1555-laptop" target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/193166/reinstall-windows-7-from-recovery-partition-on-a-dell-studio-1555-laptop</a><br>
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so now I have my recovery USB stick.. do I trash that drive & restore...<br>
then all I need to do is restore MBR..<br>
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