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    backing up the recovery partition

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by kmb3asv141, Sep 26, 2008.

  1. kmb3asv141

    kmb3asv141 Newbie

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    I have an inspiron 1420 laptop, Drive D is my recovery partition.
    Is there someway I can backup the entire partition to an image and later I load into a brand new Hard disk? with C: Local drive and D drive for recovery instead of using the vista dvd provided by dell?
     
    kmb3asv141, Sep 26, 2008
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  2. TravisBean

    TravisBean Notebook Evangelist

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    I dont know about re-loading it, but I did copy just my partition to my Western D. Ext HD, just to see if I could do it. At first it kept saying that the partition was locked and could not be copied, but I never take no for an answer and kept playing around with it until I finally copied it. And what Im gonna do with it now, I have no Idea! This is the essence of hacking.
     
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