There's no separate recovery partition on the 960 Pro I cloned to and an event for it saying "device not migrated". I could use some help with these.

[Bleedingyamato]

I had used Samsung's data migration utility to clone from the 850 Pro I was using as my OS drive to my new 960 Pro that is now being used for my OS drive.

 

I noticed in disk management that unlike my 850 Pro there's no separate recovery partition on my 960 Pro.

 

Is this something I should worry about?    Idk if it's a problem or not or if it is how to fix it.  

 

 

 

The other thing is I looked in the events tab for my 960 Pro to see what it said and saw an event for "device not migrated".

 

What is this?  Is it a problem?

[NumLock21]

DM says there are 2 recovery partitions

[Bleedingyamato]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

DM says there are 2 recovery partitions

Sorry.  I meant there's no recovery partition on my 960 Pro.  

 

Previously I was using my 850 Pro as my OS drive but I cloned it to my 960 Pro using Samsung's data migration utility.  

 

I still have the 850 Pro connected and I haven't decided what I plan to do with it yet so I haven't erased it.  

 

That's why there's recovery partitions showing on the 850 Pro.  

 

 

The 960 Pro shown in the picture is what I cloned to and is my OS drive now.  

[NumLock21]

8 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Sorry.  I meant there's no recovery partition on my 960 Pro.  

 

Previously I was using my 850 Pro as my OS drive but I cloned it to my 960 Pro using Samsung's data migration utility.  

 

I still have the 850 Pro connected and I haven't decided what I plan to do with it yet so I haven't erased it.  

 

That's why there's recovery partitions showing on the 850 Pro.  

 

 

The 960 Pro shown in the picture is what I cloned to and is my OS drive now.  

Those snap shots are they from the 960 Pro or 850 Pro?

Which SSD are you currently booting from?

[Bleedingyamato]

8 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Those snap shots are they from the 960 Pro or 850 Pro?

Which SSD are you currently booting from?

The first picture shows the list of drives.

 

The bottom drive (disk 3) is the 960 Pro that I'm currently booting from.

 

That 960 Pro is the drive I've asking about.  

 

I had cloned my previous OS drive to it but I noticed the 960 Pro doesn't seem to have a recovery partition.  

[NumLock21]

15 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

The first picture shows the list of drives.

 

The bottom drive (disk 3) is the 960 Pro that I'm currently booting from.

 

That 960 Pro is the drive I've asking about.  

 

I had cloned my previous OS drive to it but I noticed the 960 Pro doesn't seem to have a recovery partition.  

Samsung migration might have just cloned the C drive instead of the entire drive. Recovery partition is basically windows repair tool and it's created during a clean install. Recovery partition is not necessary, although having it lets you repair the OS without the need to insert your Windows disc every single time, when the OS isn't working. What you can try is, shrink the 960 Pro, to get some free space out of it. Then boot from your windows setup disc and head over to custom install. Select the empty partition and click on "New". Windows will say it needs to create some partitions, blah, blah, blah, click OK. Now you'll see the recovery partition. After that restart.

 

Disconnect all HDD/SSD except for your drive you need to work on

[Bleedingyamato]

3 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Samsung migration might have just cloned the C drive instead of the entire drive. Recovery partition is basically windows repair tool and it's created during a clean install. Recovery partition is not necessary, although having it lets you repair the OS without the need to insert your Windows disc every single time, when the OS isn't working. What you can try is, shrink the 960 Pro, to get some free space out of it. Then boot from your windows setup disc and head over to custom install. Select the empty partition and click on "New". Windows will say it needs to create some partitions, blah, blah, blah, click OK. Now you'll see the recovery partition. After that restart.

 

Disconnect all HDD/SSD except for your drive you need to work on

I was mostly just curious if it would an issue not to have one or if it could cause any problems.

 

If it means I'd have to use a disc for recovery that's ok. 

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, Bleedingyamato said:

I was mostly just curious if it would an issue not to have one or if it could cause any problems.

 

If it means I'd have to use a disc for recovery that's ok. 

Can't remember how win10 recovery partiton works. On win7 without that, pressing f8 to repair will not work. Now the win10 version, certain recovey funtiona will not work when booting from a disc, such as OEM factory reset.