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    What will happen to my recovery partition?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by madcow043, May 29, 2009.

  1. madcow043

    madcow043 Newbie

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    ok so I have an Sl400 with home basic on it, however I would like to upgrade to home premium. My question is what will happen to my recovery partition once i upgrade? will it still be usable?
     
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Are you going to upgrade or clean install it? I'd say if you upgrade the chances it'll still work are pretty good, but I've never done it.
     
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    I want to clean install
     
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    The recovery partition will not be usable in Vista. My guess would be it'll still work on boot, but I've never done it that way. Maybe someone else can chime it here.
     
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    zillal Notebook Consultant

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    No it won't work on boot once you clean install into C: partition. This changes the MBR from pointing to the recovery partition to point to C:.

    Easiest way to upgrade is to get a set of recovery disks from here.That will give you a new setup with a working recovery partition.
     
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    Except those are for Vista Business and Ultimate while the OP has Home Premium.
     
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    Always create recovery disks before performing a clean install.

    In your case, create the rescue media and the recovery disks. They will allow you to recover the factory preinstalled Vista and the recovery partition.

    Start > ThinkVantage > Create Recovery Media
     
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    I've created them, but I am not sure they will work if I need to revert back to preinstalled vista. The reason I'm unsure of the recovery discs is that when I pop the CD in, there is not "setup.exe" or other setup-like files. When I created the recovery media, it said that "DVD-RAM" could not be used for the first disc, so I assumed that the first disc is a CD and the other 2 should be DVDs, can any1 confirm is this is right?
     
    madcow043, May 30, 2009
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