Windows 10: HP Recovery Partition - Software needed?

First, you really need to try booting into the recovery partition (G and make sure it boots before doing anything else.

Second, you need to make a Macrium Reflect image of both the EFI System Partition and the C: drive partition from the SSD if you did not do that the first time. In the event of failure you will need to restore both those partitions. Select both partitions

Third, the image can be stored anywhere that Kyhi's Recovery Tools can access. Just make the G: recovery partition large enough to hold it and put it there so you only have 1 "recovery partition". If you want an NTFS partition on your HDD for data storage (movies, music, documents, etc.), the Macrium Reflect image can be on it. I like it to be in my recovery partition.

Fourth, there is no need to do anything with a Macrium rescue drive separately if you have Kyhi's Recovery Tools that you can boot into. Kyhi's Recovery Tools has Macrium Reflect included.

You should have 1 "recovery" partition, G: drive. On my computer it contains:
The files and folders from the Windows 10 ISO file.
The boot.wim file from Kyhi's recovery tools (replacing the Windows 10 boot.wim file).
The exported drivers from the dism /export-driver command.
A Macrium Reflect image file of my entire SSD, which is the EFI System partition and the C: drive Windows partition.

This allows me the most flexibility. I can boot into Kyhi's Recovery Tools and have all the utilities available in it for troubleshooting. I can do a rapid SSD restore from the image file saved. I can do a completely clean install of Windows 10 from it. And I can do all that with no internet connection or any outside device so long as the internal HDD on my laptop is still good. On the road, if my SSD should fail, I could even set up the HDD as the main drive and either install or restore Windows 10 to it.

 

Sir, you have helped me greatly.

I can confirm that everything works the way I want it.

Great recovery software btw, it had lots of helpful software that loaded when I booted that 'disk'.

My image was done of the entire disk, all the partitions. I didn't load the image, but it should be working.

Once again, thanks ! Can travel safely without my USB disk.

 

Yeah, those seem to be happening to me more often.