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Does anyone keep the RECOVERY partition?

post #1 of 6
1/7/08 at 4:18pm
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I was thinking of formatting it and merging it with the main partition into one whole partition.

Any problems I have with that?
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post #2 of 6
1/7/08 at 10:55pm
The only thing that happends of course is you would now have to use a recovery CD to reinstall your OS.

For many of us that is not an issue, I would rather have the 10 gigs of space.

Really you could always Ghost the drive after a fresh install.
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post #3 of 6
1/7/08 at 11:00pm
what dave-p said... why would you ever want to recover to a partition full of bloatware?? that and you'll have the same bloatware if you were to use it a year or two later...


NO I DO NOT WANT NORTON 2004!!



easier to just do a full fresh format once and use something like acronis... or just use the xp disc to format every time.



and for those people who hate the pain of formatting b/c of the time it takes... i really dont mind it at all b/c i install all my programs on my xp partition through virtualbox... so at least i have a functional linux operating system while i wait for everything to be installed...
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post #4 of 6
1/12/08 at 10:07am
As soon as i found out there was a restore partition i got rid of that, You can use ghost or Acronis backup software and write your image to cd or another external drive.
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post #5 of 6
1/13/08 at 2:06am
How did you get rid of the restore partition?
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post #6 of 6
1/13/08 at 2:12am
i got my info from here have a look around the site. I used ptedit to make the partition available to windows and then i just formated and used partition magic to merge the 2 partitions.
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