I have upgraded the HDD in a Samsung laptop and would like to restore the "Press F4 for recovery" partition.
My new disk has three partitions, System, Windows, and Recovery. I did a dd of the recovery partition from the old HDD to the new. I also set the diag flag on the new HDD. F4 recovery still is not working.
tldr: I mapped my new disk like my old disk with the exception of exact sizes. I did the recover partition from old to new via livecd. F4 recovery does not work.
Best Answer
You will need to use dd to do a full drive copy to this one and then use the recovery, as it sounds by doing only one partition, the MBR isn't being copied correctly, preventing the recovery from working.