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    Replacing content of Recovery partition

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Z-IBM, Mar 19, 2010.

  1. Z-IBM

    Z-IBM Notebook Enthusiast

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    My t400 comes with preinstalled Windows 7 32-bit. Now, I'm get Windows 7 64-bit recovery DVD from Lenovo.
    Is there a way to replace recovery partition (that contains Windows7 32-bit) with new content (Windows7 64-bit)?
     
    Z-IBM, Mar 19, 2010
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  2. naton

    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    When you use the DVD of the 64bit, if it is like Acer's laptops, it would repartition your HDD, and replaces the old recovery partition with the 64bit one.

    Since you have the recovery disk why do you want to have the recovery partition too?
     
    naton, Mar 19, 2010
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  3. Aikimox

    Aikimox Weihenstephaner!

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    Yeah, recovery partitions are useless IMO. You can always use a DVD or better yet, make a backup image of your system partition/entire disk to some huge external disk. This way you can always update the image as with time your initial recovery partition will be greatly outdated.
     
    Aikimox, Mar 19, 2010
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