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    Dell recovery partition: should I keep it?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by toronto, Nov 11, 2011.

  1. toronto

    toronto Notebook Deity

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    Brand new XPS 15. I used Acronis True Image Home to take a full disk image of the HD before the laptop had ever been booted from the HD. So, that image can be used anytime to restore the laptop to exactly how it was when it left the factory.

    Given that, is there any reason to retain the Dell recovery partition on the internal HD? It's a nominal 750 GB HD, so actual space total about 699 GB. The Dell recovery partition is 19.53 GB, or 2.8% of the drive's space. If there's no need to have that recovery partition on the HD, then I could delete it to reclaim that space.

    Here's how the drive is currently laid out (when examined after booting from CD):

    NTFS (Recovery) C: 19.53 GB
    NTFS (OS) D: 679 GB
    FAT16 (Unlabeled) 101.9 MB Type: Dell Server utilities
     
    toronto, Nov 11, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    It's up to you. The Dell recovery partition I would assume is faster to reimage the machine than an Acronis full image backup. Considering you have a 750 GB hard drive...why not keep it?
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Nov 11, 2011
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