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I just bought an hp laptop with a 750Gb hdd for a co-worker. I also bought an SSD. The hdd was partitioned with (in order) system, c:\ , hp_tools, hp_recovery partitions.
I shrunk the c: partition so it would fit on the ssd and then made an image on a usb drive.
Then swap out the hdd for the ssd , boot from recovery CD but I get the "Re-Image your computer. The system image restore failed. No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found." message.
I futz around for 4 hours or so with diskpart permutations before finally figuring out that I need to delete the 2 hp hdd partitions as they're on the hdd in a space that doesn't exist on the SSD and presumably the partition table gets restored too. After deleting the hp partitions the restore worked first time. Hope this helps someone.
added this info later..
a few hours later I discover I need the hp_tools partition to get fingerprint logon to work.. so I shrink the c:\ partition on the ssd by 2gb create a new fat32 partition in the created space and call it HP_TOOLS and copy the files I backed up from the HP_TOOLS partition on the old HDD before I deleted that partition.
Last edited by 4262mikeb; 09 May 2014 at 15:19. Reason: additional info on hp partitioning