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    Vista Recovery + Losing Partition ?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Tecknikal, Apr 9, 2008.

  1. Tecknikal

    Tecknikal Notebook Consultant

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    I was wondering , if i partition my HDD , and i do a Recovery after , will i lose the partition ? Will it revert back to a full HDD or stayed partition ? Because i wanna put my personnal stuff on the partition and do a Fresh Recovery !
     
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  2. glatzfront

    glatzfront Notebook Geek

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    My experience is that if I recover from the recovery partition then just the OS partition is affected. If I recover from the recovery DVDs then the whole hard drive is restored to the original condition.

    In any case, before restoring you should also backup your data to an external storage medium.
     
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    glatzfront Notebook Geek

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    Hope you don't mind another suggestion.

    Acronis True Image is $50.

    After getting your OS set up the way you like image it and then use this image to restore if needed. If you want to burn the image to DVDs the max size is 4.3 GB. After creating the images verify them or after burning the images to DVDs verify them on the DVDs.
     
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  4. srunni

    srunni Notebook Deity

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    I've got another question about this - if you use the DVD to restore to factory state, will that reset the recovery DVD burn counter, allowing you to burn another set? I would like to have a backup if possible, but from what I understand that is not allowed.
     
    srunni, Apr 9, 2008
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  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    why dont you just make a duplicate copy of the recovery set you have now? that would be alot easier than restoring and trying
     
    flipfire, Apr 9, 2008
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