This thread here made mention of such a tool, but it was never posted and I couldn't find it: The hard drive is 500GB in size, and the type of Laptop is a Samsung R530-JT02.
Is there any tool by Samsung that allows me to restore the default partitioning? If anyone here has a samsung PC, would they be willing to share the information about their partitions, such as the flags that are set, specifically for the recovery partition. So I replaced the zeroes with ACh and 98h in my old user1.wcl and replaced the SamsungRecovery folder on my external HDD with my old (but patched) backup. The backup from SRS4 is filled with zeroes at this position, while the backups from SRS5 contain the bytes ACh and 98h.
It seems, that there are only two bytes in user1.wcl, which are necessary for version matching. After some unsuccessful attempts, including trying to install SRS4 in a virtual machine (Admin Tool did not complete installing recovery environment, which may depend on special Samsung system functions), I created a backup with SRS5 and compared the files with my old backup. Although I did not know if my backed up Windows would work smoothly or even boot on this completely different system, I still wanted to recover the partition to copy the interesting files manually. However, the new netbook came with Recovery Solution 5 and did not recognize my backup files. IT DOES NOT re-create the recovery partition.Since I just got my money back, I needed to decide between the same model (which was even more expensive than before, as I remember correctly) or a newer and better one. So I have chosen to buy the newer one. It is merely a customized (Samsung branded) Windows XP installation disc which installs Windows XP without any Samsung drivers e.g. Note the Recovery Disc provided by Samsung is NOT the same as a SRS-created recovery disc.
If you happen to corrupt or delete the recovery partition for any reason, this disc WILL re-create the recovery partition. Easus Partition Manager where you copy the recovery partition to another visible one (same size or larger), and copy the image files init.wcl and init.woo.
The latter can be done with a disk partitioning tool e.g. It is wise to obtain copies of two backup images - one from your current hard disk, and extract the 'initial' image from the recovery partition itself. BACKUP YOUR HARD DISK IMAGES!!! DO NOT DELETE YOUR RECOVERY PARTITION UNTIL YOU HAVE MADE A DVD BACKUP!!! This cannot be stressed any further.
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