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    Recovery disk question

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Grump, Feb 5, 2012.

  1. Grump

    Grump Notebook Consultant

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    Simple question but the prompts don't say. I have a recovery disk for the ASUS...will this erase data on the hard drive when I use it?
     
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    Normally no it wont delete the hard drive but simply repair you windows and recover it.. You may lose some programs installed in some case but all you documents, music, pictures and private files will remain present.
     
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    It depends where your data is stored and what option you choose during recovery. If all of your data is on the C drive then it will be lost. If it is on a different partition like D and you choose to recover to the first partition, then that data on drive D will be intact. If you choose to recover to the whole disk all of your existing data will be lost.

    I believe TheArkTruth is thinking of a windows repair installation which is different from the asus recovery utility. The latter simply restores a factory disk image while the former is a traditional install process.
     
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    Yes you true I was thinking of Windows Reapir.... Sorry
     
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    what I want to know is if I selected 'recover windows to entire HD' or 'recover windows to entire HD with two partitions' will it erase files from casual prodding around since I'm sending the computer somewhere.
     
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    Either of the 'entire HD' options will wipe out the entire hard disk's existing data. It may not physically overwrite (zero out) all of the data on the entire disk though. I am not sure about the way the disk imaging works with the asus utility on that low a level.

    If you are concerned with privacy, you can get something like Eraser and delete the files you consider sensitive with it, and/or use it to do a secure erase of free space.

    Eraser
     
    ALLurGroceries, Feb 6, 2012
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