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    Recovery Partition Removal

    Discussion in 'HP' started by aglakers3165, Sep 14, 2006.

  1. aglakers3165

    aglakers3165 Notebook Enthusiast

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    im not sure if this has benn said before...but there is a quick way to remove the recovery partititon after u create the backup disks...simply go to ur c drive, WINDOWS folder, CREATOR folder, and then double click RPREMOVAL.exe

    this brings up the recovery partition removal tool, and then after u proceed takes a matter of 10 seconds and uve freed up ur 10 gigs.
     
    aglakers3165, Sep 14, 2006
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  2. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    I think it's safe to presume most knew this. Needless to say, do create the recovery discs - I should know :p
     
    LFC, Sep 14, 2006
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  3. fdlazarte

    fdlazarte Notebook Consultant

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    wow! that works!

    but when you go to Computer Management, why is there a 1GB Healthy (Unknown Partition) left? any ideas how to recover this space?

    thnx!
     
    fdlazarte, Sep 15, 2006
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  4. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    That is your Quickplay partition. I wouldnt touch it unless you do not want to use Quickplays directplay feature.
     
    miner, Sep 15, 2006
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  5. fdlazarte

    fdlazarte Notebook Consultant

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    oh! thanks for telling me that... I was about to remove that partition!

    thanks miner!
     
    fdlazarte, Sep 15, 2006
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  6. ThunderRiver

    ThunderRiver Notebook Consultant

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    Installed Windows Vista RC1 on DV2000t yesterday. Boy, that was fun (not sarcasm).
    Vista recognized all the devices and installed proper drivers except the media card readers (piece of cake).
    You do need to install the audio driver that came with HP to enable the microphone on the system.

    To enable Aero on nVidia cards, you must download the Vista drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ with their modified INF file to install the driver for your nVidia 7200 (for dv2000t).

    Anyway, I am typing this post on Vista now. The only component that doesn't work is..well, you guess it.. QuickPlay. It is okay though. I don't care for that feature. And even if you don't install the drivers from HP for QP, Vista won't crash and burn, unlike Xp.
     
    ThunderRiver, Sep 15, 2006
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  7. hurtbreakkid

    hurtbreakkid Newbie

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    somebody told me that the recovery partition will be recreated if you do a full recovery (factory defaults) from the recovery disc set? anybody who already tried this?
     
    hurtbreakkid, Jul 3, 2007
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  8. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yes, they do if you have Win XP. Maybe someone else will confirm if it is the same with Vista.
     
    miner, Jul 3, 2007
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