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    Partition

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by joe_rocket65, Jan 10, 2006.

  1. joe_rocket65

    joe_rocket65 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a Gateway MX3558. It comes with a restore disk and a partition on the HD. I'm wondering what the purpose of the partition is if I have the restore disk? Does the restore disk have the OS and the partition the needed drivers and settings? I would like to remove the partition if possible.
     
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    Bamboo One Notebook Consultant

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    The real issue is that the Disk that you have often does not have all of the drivers. Just do a search to find how some people have had to search for them.

    Point being: backup your drivers first.

    Also, if I am not mistaken, when you reinstall you will be given the option of whether or not you want to set up a recovery partition.

    The other advantage of the recovery partition is that the XP key is sort of "embeded" so that it does not have to be entered every time. I don't think that the Disk is set up that way.
     
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