I have my friends laptop Dell Inspirion 1545. The HDD have many bad sectors but I had time to do:
- a copy of dell recovery image to usb flash drive via Dell Backup and Recovery Application
- a copy of very important files
- and a copy of 2 partitions to each image file using Acronis True Image application:
- FAT16 Pri 39,19MB FS:FAT16 Partition: 0xde (EISA configuration)
- RECOVERY Pri,Act 14.65GB NTFS
RECOVERY partition have the same content as usb flash drive with I used to make a Dell recovery image.
If she buy a new HDD what should I do/use to recover Windows 7 from USB flash drive?
PS. I have nothing to loose and I try to play with failed hdd.
First I make partition from LBA 0 to first 80GB where were bad sectors and hide this partition.
Next I make those 2 "dell" partitions, and rest for system files.
Next I recover those 2 "dell" partitions using Acronis True Image.
Next I use usb flash drive to try recover Windows 7, it recovers for maybe 10 seconds and it says done, please restart.
When it shows BOOTMGR is missing press ctrl + alt +del and now I can see only 2 partitions labeled OS ~298GB and RECOVERY ~2GB.