Can I clone the partition containing the recovery software on an HP computer with a bad hard drive to a new hard drive and then use it to install the original software on the new hard drive? The old HD suddenly developed several bad sectors and the BIOS reports that failure is imminent. It is only 2 months old and normally I would just take it to be repaired under warranty, but this is a bad time of the month and the unit cannot be gone for an extended period of time.
Any tips, suggestions, help will be appreciated tremendously.
Zeusfan