ASUS Recovery Disc Question

My V6Va has been getting a bit slugish as of late, especially around startup. I know it's b/c I've just installed a lot of crap during the last year (most of which I don't need/use anymore); you should see what shows up in startup under msconfig! Anyway, I've decided to reformat my notebook with the ASUS recovery program. Before I do that I had one simple question:

I never messed with the default partitions and still have the C: and D: drives setup by ASUS. Will the ASUS recovery just wipe C:\, or will it wipe both? In other words, can I backup stuff I want to save (like iTunes music, games, etc) to D:\?

Thanks!

 

yeah, first thing, put everything u need from d: on c: then (assuming your windows partition is on c) through windows, quick format d: then put back everything you want to save on d: then run the recovery, it should ask you in windows setup what drive you want to install this partition on, you say c: and it will ask you format? or leave file settings intact, you format c, but make sure you don't format d... which it shouldn't ask you to do, after formatting c, run through the regular windows spiel of setup, blah blah blah and then re-install all the drivers, and then ur set. have fun!!!

 

There are 3 options when doing a recovery, and I find it pretty useful.

1. Restore to default factoru settings with c: and d: clear
2. Restore c: to factory settings only, d: is left alone
3. Restore c: and d: to factory settings and partition it to one drive, c:

I always keep d: as my file storage drive, important pics and music, etc. go there, and everything else(programs usually) are kept on c:. If only we could customize the size ratio when doing a recovery, but alas, Partition Magic can do that afterwards

 

True, and if you do partition the HDD as you like it and then recover with option 2, all the other partitions except the first are left alone (so it doesn't need to be only a d:, it can be d: e: etc.)