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Tracy_Laugle
I run Windows 8 on a Dell Inspiron 7720 Laptop. About a week ago, a hardware scan showed that my hard drive was failing, so I took steps to replace the hard drive. I made a system image (it took me 4 tries to successfully image, including running a chkdsk on the drive), and also made a recovery disk to boot the machine. I read articles that recommended a recovery drive instead of a disk, so I went ahead and made one of those as well. On the surface, it looks like I'm ready to install the new hard drive.
This fantasy lasted until I tried to boot to the recovery drive, and I discovered that the BIOS was set to the UEFI boot menu and I had to change it to legacy to boot to anything other than the HD or network. Now I can choose to boot to the recovery drive, but it says that there was no "operation system" (what's up with that? - it feels like I'm being spammed). I tried the boot disk with the same message. I hit F8, and I am able to go into the recovery console, but I can't do a recovery to a different hard drive that way. I tried re-creating the drive and the disk, but I had the same result. I'm out of ideas to get the recovery drive or disk to boot. Can anyone give me any advice on how to get the laptop to boot to the recovery drive?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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This fantasy lasted until I tried to boot to the recovery drive, and I discovered that the BIOS was set to the UEFI boot menu and I had to change it to legacy to boot to anything other than the HD or network. Now I can choose to boot to the recovery drive, but it says that there was no "operation system" (what's up with that? - it feels like I'm being spammed). I tried the boot disk with the same message. I hit F8, and I am able to go into the recovery console, but I can't do a recovery to a different hard drive that way. I tried re-creating the drive and the disk, but I had the same result. I'm out of ideas to get the recovery drive or disk to boot. Can anyone give me any advice on how to get the laptop to boot to the recovery drive?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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