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    4GB Recovery Partition -- do I need it if I have a Recovery DVD?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Mazda 3s, Jan 30, 2007.

  1. Mazda 3s

    Mazda 3s Notebook Guru

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    I have an A8Jp and it has a 4GB Recovery Partition. I'm getting ready to do an upgrade to Vista Home Premium and was just wondering if I even need that Recovery Partition seeing as how Asus supplied:

    1) A Recovery DVD and
    2) A Recovery CD with Drivers/Software on it

    Thanks in advance
     
    Mazda 3s, Jan 30, 2007
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  2. PROPortable

    PROPortable Company Representative

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    You don't need it, but with a nice big hard drive, does it matter? It's there so just incase you need to reformat, you don't need the discs..... just keep the discs in a nice safe stop. The one on the hard drive is nice and quick too... whole reformat and reinstall of windows and the drivers in under 20 minutes. So, I'd keep it unless you NEED that space.
     
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  3. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Yes, to put things into perspective, recovery from CDs takes up to 4 hours (perhaps somewhat less from the DVD, but I don't expect less than the order of hours)
     
    E.B.E., Jan 31, 2007
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  4. Payback

    Payback Notebook Consultant

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    How does the recovery partition work? On my previous notebook, a Dell I6000, it had a recovery partition. I kept it so I could get it back to original specs if I wanted to but I found out the hard way that if you reformat your C drive (or change the MBR in any way) the recovery partition is then inaccessable. I had to get a new Windows disc from Dell (they didn't provide one originally).
     
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  5. ElMatador

    ElMatador Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, How does one use the recovery Partition anyway?
     
    ElMatador, Feb 1, 2007
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