Hello All,
I am hoping someone can help me out, and I have very little knowledge about computers.
I purchased an HP Laptop awhile back, and it came with WIndows 8.0 installed, and was upgraded to Windows 8.1 when it became available. When I bought the HP Laptop, the built in hard drive had a partition which is a 'Recovery' partition.
I recently got a SMART notice that my HDD was failing. I was basically very limited in what I could do. I tried to clone the hard drive, but it wouldn't work. I was able to 'copy' the Recovery drive to another HDD, which I have placed in one of those little hard drive cases that you can attach to a computer via a USB port.
I have another computer running Windows 8.1, and was wanting to attach the recovery drive via the USB port, and somehow create a bootable USB drive, so I could use the bootable USB drive to get the computer started again (I have a new hard drive in it).
In my searching, I see how to create a bootable USB drive, but all the ones I have looked at (and when I tried it), are creating vs the internal hard drive and don't have an obvious option to create from the attached by USB hard drive with the recovery partition.
Let me know if you can help.
Kevin