Switching Fully to XP, Recovery question.

Well, since I installed Xp on a second Partition on my 5315, i have hardly used vista at all, and am about to use (possibly) the whole HDD and reinstall XP.
However, i currently dont have any burnable DVD's and dont plan to buy any soon, so should I use 9 CD-rs to burn a recovery disc for vista, should i need it, or just leave the recovery partition (I dont have alt+f10 anymore, but i can set it as the active partition in Gparted. THis would give me 102gb vs 111Gb HDD Space.

Thanks

duksandfish

 

I would say just leave it there. But that's just me.

 

In GParted, Keep the Recovery Partition separate. Delete the Vista Partition. You'll get it as unallocated space. Install XP on that unallocated space.

Then back into GParted, (after copying your stuff from the old XP partition) delete the previous (old) XP partition, you'll get that as unallocated space, then make that a partition for storing dump (music, etc) files.

This way your recovery partition should be intact, the new XP install will be on the first partition (which would be on the outer edge of the HDD, hence faster data read/write rates and lower access times on that partition, better HDD performance, since the actuator arm and the head would have to cover a small radius to fetch data from the disk), and you can use the dump partition to store pics, music, etc. since the HDD won't need to access that too often.

 

Thanks both of you, i ended up leaving the PQSERVICE partition. Here is a pic of what I did. (Time to edit my sig )

 

looks like a good setup IMO