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    Question about recovery partition size

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Tenspeed, Nov 21, 2008.

  1. Tenspeed

    Tenspeed Notebook Consultant

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    Below is the property window for my D drive on my DV5T. It shows that it's only taking up about 4.5 GB's. If it is only that small... and I thought on my other DV5T, it showed that it was 11 GB, why did I need 3 4.7GB DVD's to make my recovery discs?
     

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    0.0 Notebook Consultant

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    That attachment does not show a partition but shows a file 4.6MB (not GB) :confused:
     
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  3. S_P_Q_R

    S_P_Q_R Notebook Evangelist

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    Good question, shouldn't your recovery drive be E: by default? Show us a screen shot of your Disk management page. O.O good point!
     
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  4. deeastman

    deeastman Notebook Deity

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    What you are looking at is the size of a file called Recovery on the root of your logical recovery D:\ drive. Go up one level or simply right click and check the properties of your D:\ drive in my computer. Now you will see all the space used by the HP_Recovery partition.
     
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  5. Tenspeed

    Tenspeed Notebook Consultant

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    yep, im-a-dork... i was tired last night when i was looking at this.
     

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