So I nuked it too! Here is the procedure: I'm glad you asked! This partition is no longer needed since you can do it with the USB drive (in fact, it only uses 200MB). Your V8P is now good as new but the recovery partition will not be restored. You may want to use it if you have been using your V8P and now want to sell it.Īfter you confirmed with 1st option, it will take about 20 minutes and V8P will reboot and you will be presented with initial setup. But the option 2 is slower as it attempts to erase your personal file with random data. If you now want to reset your V8P to factory condition, you can boot back into USB and continue where you left off after "Reset your PC"Īfter you touch "Windows 8.1", there is a short wait and you will seeĬlick to expand.The two options all ended up the same. In the end, choose "remove recovery partition". Now, make another Recovery USB following the same steps above. You should now have good feeling that the USB works. Choose "Windows 8.1", there is a short wait and you will see some options.You will enter BIOS, go to Boot you make "Boot Option #1" your USB drive.press the power button, you will see the screen blink a little, immediately press "Vol -" once.Wait until the V8P is completely shutdown.
Leave the USB connected and shutdown your V8P.Don't do it until you do some sanity test. In the end, you have an option to delete the recovery partition.The process will take a while depending on your USB drive. It will format the USB drive and make it bootable and copy the recovery partition over.Leave the check box checked to copy recovery partition to USB.Open the search box and type "recovery drive" and click on Create a recovery drive.The proper way of moving Recovery Partition is use Windows's "Create a recovery drive". I don't understand how this could get past QC.
#How to move recovery partition windows 10 software#
Do not use Dell's Recovery and Backup software to move Recovery Partition because you will ended up with a USB that boots up and asks for power to be plugged in.