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    Installing Windows without the Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by asdad123, Mar 13, 2011.

  1. asdad123

    asdad123 Notebook Evangelist

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    How would I go about doing this? I have a recovery USB drive made and have no need for the recovery partition on my HDD.

    I have a 64gb SSD coming in so I would need as much space saved as I could on it and the recovery partition takes up about 14gb.

    Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
     
    asdad123, Mar 13, 2011
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  2. tommyxv

    tommyxv Notebook Evangelist

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    When I re-installed the OS.... Win 7 just created a 100mb partition and that was it. I had no option for a recovery partition.
     
    tommyxv, Mar 13, 2011
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  3. thegh0sts

    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    no recovery partition is made: you don't need it. since you're using an SSD disable write caching, indexing, defrag, hibernation, and lower the page file to give you more storage space.
     
    thegh0sts, Mar 13, 2011
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  4. asdad123

    asdad123 Notebook Evangelist

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    So Ill be fine just using the recovery USB made by alienrespawn?

    Thanks! Cant wait for the SSD to come lol.
     
    asdad123, Mar 14, 2011
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