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    Does HP System Recovery repartition the harddisk?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Rayver, Dec 26, 2007.

  1. Rayver

    Rayver Newbie

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    Hi all,
    I'm planning to do a system recovery.
    I have repartitioned the whole harddisk as soon as I got the dv9330ca, making it into a C:, D:, E :(Original Recovery Partition from HP), F: and G:. My pre-installed Vista is on C:, other partitions are my docs, movies and games, etc.

    Now the question is, if I do a system recovery from the HP Recovery Manager, will I be able to just format C:, and restore Vista and whatever HP gives me on it, leaving other partitions intact? I don't want to see after the recovery, there's only a C: and D :(recovery partition) left, and my other partitions are gone...

    If anyone know this or has done this before, please give me some advice, thanks a lot!
     
    Rayver, Dec 26, 2007
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  2. caveman

    caveman Notebook Consultant

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    Not totally sure about that. But I would think that it would not repartion your hdd.

    But I know that running a recovery from the recovery disks should reformatt and repartion the whole hdd. The interesting thing that you can do if you have two hdds, you can run switch the drives and then use the disks on the what used to be data drive and then lets say windows went corrupt on the old C drive you could recovery your files
     
    caveman, Dec 26, 2007
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  3. orev

    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    It's a good question, and I also know it will repartition when installing from DVDs. Not sure about when installing from the drive. As long as you backup everything before you do it, as you know you should, then you can see what it does.
     
    orev, Dec 27, 2007
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  4. FDNY2002

    FDNY2002 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I did the recovery on my 9500t but I have 2 drives, It did not touch my 2nd drive but the 1st with the C and Recovery were completely set back to original. When I have reinstalled in the past with multiple partitions they were lost, but they weren't HP's so I am not completely sure.
     
    FDNY2002, Dec 27, 2007
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    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    The question is doing the recovery using the DVD vs using the recovery partition. I suspect using the recovery partition would not repartition, as it would cause the recovery partition itself to possibly change.
     
    orev, Dec 27, 2007
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    pauljrog Notebook Guru

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    The recovery manager will only install windows in the C drive, all your other partitions will not be touched, i've done this before with no problems.
     
    pauljrog, Dec 28, 2007
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  7. Rayver

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    Thanks everyone. Since I just got a 500gig usb drive on boxing day, I did a thorough backup and tried the recovery(from the recovery partition), and just like pauljrog said, it didn't touch the other partitions but just the C:. So that was pretty good to me. :)
    Thanks again for your responses!
     
    Rayver, Dec 28, 2007
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