It is necessary to clone recovery partition to USB/SSD/HDD
There are two kinds of recovery partition: Windows recovery partition, and computer
supplier’s recovery partition. The Windows recovery partition won’t take too much
space, for example, the Windows 10 recovery partition is about 450MB. Most brand
computers come with recovery partition created by manufacturers such as
HP/Dell/Lenovo. Usually, it takes about 20GB.
As the recovery partition will take a large space on the hard drive, many users want
to delete recovery
partition for releasing more free space. However, the recovery
partition is important in a certain way: It can help you restore to factory settings
when your system crashed. Thus, it is necessary to clone recovery partition to
USB/SSD/HDD.
How to clone HP recovery partition to USB drive?
Here you can learn how to clone HP recovery partition to USB drive easily (it also
can be used to clone Dell, Lenovo or other brand computer’s recovery partition).
First, you need a partition cloning software, and here we highly recommend you AOMEI Partition Assistant.
AOMEI Partition Assistant is an easy-to-use software that you can use it to clone HP
recovery partition to USB or other external hard drive easily. Here are the details
about how to clone HP recovery partition to USB drive with AOMEI Partition
Assistant.
Free Download AOMEI Partition
Assistant.
Step 1. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant. In the main interface, locate
HP Recovery Partition, right click it and choose “Copy Partition” in the drop-down
menu.

Step 2. Here provides you two ways to copy partition. Here we can
only use Sector-by-Sector Copy.
“Copy Partition Quickly"– It only used space on recovery
partition will be copied to the new hard drive. The destination space can be smaller
than the recovery partition, but has to be not smaller than the used space on
recovery partition.
“Sector-by-Sector Copy”– All sectors on recovery partition will be
copied. The destination space has to be larger than or at least equal to
recovery partition. This way spends more time than the first way.

Step 3. Then, choose the USB drive you prepared before as the
destination space, and click Next.

Step 4. If you select “Copy Partition Quickly”, AOMEI Partition
Assistant allows you to resize partition on the destination disk. Adjust the
partition size based on your need, click Finish.

Step 5. Finally, you will return to the main interface. ClickApply -> Proceed to submit the whole
operations.

Conclusion
AOMEI Partition Assistant is such a great cloning software that you can use it to
copy partition/disk easily. Clone HP recovery partition to USB with AOMEI Partition
Assistant is such a simple thing. Actually, AOMEI Partition Assistant is more than a
cloning software. It contains many more functions such as partition hard drive,
migrate OS to SSD, create Windows to Go USB drive, etc. You can upgrade to AOMEI
Partition Assistant Professional to unlock more advanced features.
* If you are using Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, you can try AOMEI Partition Assistant Server.