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    Samsung Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by Crichton, Jan 14, 2008.

  1. Crichton

    Crichton Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just bought a Samsung Q70 and I wanted to know where the recovery partition is located, is it a hidden partition or does it use D drive for this purpose ?

    The reason I ask is that I want to remove the partition to create more disk space, but first I wanted to try and backup the data onto an external drive, so if a problem does arrive it's a bit less hassle to put the data back.

    Or, am I going about this the wrong way, should I just use Ghost to backup the C drive for recovery purposes and then remove the recovery partition and re-partition the drive as I want it ?

    I haven't fully decided yet but I'm thinking about either removing Vista entirely and installing XP, or installing partition magic and creating a dual boot with Vista & XP, which is why I want the extra space by removing the recovery partition.
     
    Crichton, Jan 14, 2008
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  2. gizmic

    gizmic Notebook Enthusiast

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    the recovery on mine is a hidden partition i guess its the same on all brands nowadays it takes about 10GB of space

    i've deleted mine when i tried to install ubuntu sadly ubuntu dont like hybrid drives so i killed everything and i took the chance to delete the recovery partition
     
    gizmic, Jan 15, 2008
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  3. Crichton

    Crichton Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think from what you've said that I'd be best to just create a backup image of my C partition with Ghost, and then just repartition the drive as I want it. I think that doing it that way will be the path of least resistance, rather than trying to backup the recovery partition.
     
    Crichton, Jan 15, 2008
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  4. gizmic

    gizmic Notebook Enthusiast

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    yup ghosting is better HD space is gold on a notebook unless willing to spend :p
     
    gizmic, Jan 16, 2008
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