Warning to others migrating your OS to a SSD

MikeFromMesa wrote:

It is not clear to me exactly what point you are trying to make.

If the recovery partition has gone corrupt I do not have a problem because I have the original backup which would then contain the original recovery partition which was good when the backup was made.

If the recovery partition is bad when delivered by the manufacturer, then it cannot be used at all. However I still have the backup which is OK. Maybe the recovery partition will not restore the system, but the backup will.

You can make the argument that a Windows disc is better than a recovery partition because the recovery partition may be bad when delivered, but a similar case can be made that the installation disc could be bad (scratched, demagnitized, etc) when delivered. Further, I am less likely to lose the recovery partition than the installation disc or, since I probably have hundreds of cds and dvds, mixed up somewhere that will take me an hour to find. And, of course, I am far less likely to scratch the recovery disc than the installation dvd.