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    Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by peraffi, May 17, 2009.

  1. peraffi

    peraffi Notebook Geek

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    I purchased a recovery disk from lenovo. Would it be safe now to delete my recovery partition so I can use it for storing data?
    thanks
     
    peraffi, May 17, 2009
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  2. beige

    beige Notebook Deity

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    do u really need this 8 or 9 gb , i think leaving the recovery partition is better unless you really need this space, recovering windows from the harddrive is much faster that DVDs .
    you can buy 2 empty DVDs and use them instead if the recovery partition area :)
     
    beige, May 17, 2009
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  3. jaredy

    jaredy Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'd leave the recovery partition that can boot and repair. You can remove the partition with the copy of the OS backed up if you really want. But it just depends how comfortable you are with not being able to restore easily from the HD.
     
    jaredy, May 17, 2009
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    arlab Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes, it's safe. There's a tutorial on how to do it, in this forum. Use the search.
     
    arlab, May 19, 2009
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    zillal Notebook Consultant

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    It's only the newest T400/500 generation of Thinkpads and then I believe only the Vista versions that come with two partitions. If you have a Q and and an S partition on your Vista machine you can safely delete the Q partition, but keep the smaller S partition.

    On for instance the T61 there is only one big partition so you can't delete it if you want to retain the recovery with Thinkvantage/F11 at boot time.

    That's exactly why Lenovo changed the design to two partitions so you can delete the partition that contains the recovery disks once you burnt them.
     
    zillal, May 20, 2009
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