HP Recovery Drive in dv8000t

I bought from Costco.com a dv8000t with 80GB Hard Drive, but the notebook come with 61,5GB (Drive C) and 11,9GB (Drive D - recovery drive).
Anyone real use this recovery drive? I want to erase this drive, because 11.9GB is so much space...I don't now, maybe I make a backup in cd.....Anyone have sugestion???

Thanks

 

the revocery drive is important incase your something happens to your system, you can restore it to how it was when it first came (BRAND NEW). so i would recommend that you NOT delete the recovery partion( unless you want to do a clean install and have an operating system on a seperate disk)

 

Wow, almost 12 gigs used for recovery...that's crazy. So C and D take up 73.4 gigs (61.5 + 11.9 = 73.4), but where's the rest?

 

There's also some space left for the Quickplay partition, but I'm not sure how much that is.

 

80 gig drive is not going to give you 80 once it's formated

It's sort of like a 21 inch crt... they measure the GLASS behind the plastic bezel /trim to be 21 inches...

The amount you "see" the viewable being like 19.2 for something advertised to "be" 21 inches.


I think they should be forced to rate things at what the customer can "see"... If that 80 formats to 75 gig, it's a 75 gig, not a 80 gig.

 

the problem is is they cannot account for the various partitioning and file system formats out there, they base the mesurement on raw disk space, once it is partitioned and formated it will yeild different capacities based on the number of partitions, the type of partitioning and the format of the file system... the only common denominator is the raw byte count on the drive

 

I want to know to, where is the rest? heheh, I don't know...
and i Think 12 gigs is really crazy..just need the cd for Windows Media Center, the other things I thnik you can take from updates in hp.com and windows updates....I'm not sure.......but 12 gigs is crazy..

 

You have the option of burning the partition onto 12 CDs/4 DVDs, after which you may delete the partition.

 

Is there a work-around to burn more than (1) copy of the recovery discs?

Say you burn a set.. and (1) of the set is corrupt. gets damaged, or gets lost....

 

the ideia for burn I think is the best option, maybe I burn 2 times, just for security.....And your HP notebook, no have this "feature" ? hehehehhe

Thanks

 

I've read posts saying the make a recovery disc option ONLY works (1) time... (1) set of discs.

 

So you make your set of discs, then make ISO's of them and store them for a rainy day.

 

I understand the concept of making extras discs.


I'm wondering if there is a work-around to when using the disc creator (I think that's what they call it) to force it to make more than (1) copy for alot of reasons.

 

If you got a dual layer DVD burner in it than you can burn the partition on 1 dual layer DVD and 1 DVD.

 

The utility to create the restore disks burns only one set of disks, and then quits. You can make copies of the discs but cannot burn it through the utility again.

Just for kinks, I had tried searching for some config files and registry entries and reset some 1s to 0s, restarted the machine and tried to make the discs again. But they must have the counter set in multiple places under dubious entries/files. I didn't have the patience to search for all of them.

By the way, the recovery partition and the recovery discs must be identical because both of them give the exact same options to recover.

On a side note, I asked Compaq support supervisor about what would happen if I wiped out the hard drive and lost the recovery discs. He said "we will take care of you". As much as I pushed him to explain what that meant , he refused to elaborate. But I am guessing that they would send you a new set of recovery discs.