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burlmart
Explorer
Aug 08, 2014

Win 8.1 recovery ... BIOS does not see HD on Dell

The boot process now takes a minute vs maybe 20 sec before. The recovery disc Dell sent us worked strangely. The laptop came w/ W8, and I think Dell did something to their recovery media such that...
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Tom_M1
Explorer
Aug 09, 2014
Your BIOS obviously recognizes the hard drive because you were able to do a restore and boot the computer.

As to the difference in boot time, some things that could affect it is perhaps your first drive was 7200rpm and the replacement was a 5400rpm. You may have been resuming from hibernate or sleep previously and are doing a full boot now.

Your backup most likely backed up only one partition and not the whole drive, thus no recovery partition on the new drive.

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