How to backup with recovery on Samsung Windows 8 PC?
Last Update date : Jul 07. 2022
Creating a new drive
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Go to Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
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In the Computer Management window, select Disk Management of Storage
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Among the Disk 0 partitions, right click the C partition
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Click Shrink Volume and click the Shrink button
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Sufficiently set the shrink volume size and follow instructions on the screen to perform shrink volume
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After shrinking, right click on a newly created partition named Unallocated
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Click New Simple Volume and follow instructions on the screen to perform volume creation
Backing up with Recovery
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Run the Recovery program
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Click the Backup menu
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Click Yes to run with administrator privileges
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Specify the newly created drive for Please select a drive for saving backup data
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Click the Backup button to start backing up the current state
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Run Windows Explorer and check whether a folder named SamsungRecovery has been created in the newly created drive, and take caution not to delete or change it
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