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    recovery partition and recovery DVD

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by crt, Nov 9, 2008.

  1. crt

    crt Notebook Guru

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    Hello everybody,
    M50Sv. i have a recovery DVD from Asus and i also have the 7 GB recovery partition partition. is the contents of the DVD the same as that partition, and if so can i delete it and reallocate the space (it's getting quite crowded on my drive)
     
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    See Info Booth_FAQ, and then question #14.
     
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    thanks, but i don't want to recover (speed is no issue btw), i just want to know that if i go into acronis disk director, right click that partition, choose delete, then merge it with c: will my laptop boot up without errors and the recovery DVD won't complain either when i have to use it
     
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    That link that I described in my 1st post confirms that you do not need the recovery partition to do a recovery to factory settings for your computer. The optical media will suffice. So yes, you can delete the partition. Be aware that optical media recovery takes much longer than HDD recovery.
     
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