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    Can I delete the Recovery partition?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by notaguru, Jun 8, 2008.

  1. notaguru

    notaguru Notebook Consultant

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    SZ670 with 160GB HD

    Apparently the HD is partitioned with some considerable capacity dedicated to recovery. If I'm willing to keep recovery on an 8GB Memory Stick, can I repartition and use that space for conventional storage?

    And if so, can I do it without reformatting?
     
    notaguru, Jun 8, 2008
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    evansgambit Newbie

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    Hi there,

    This is a standard computer question. If you re-partition then you lose the contents of the drives, and you also must re-create the new partitions, and thus must format.

    But by all means, save your recovery files whichever way you can. Backed up on disc or USB.

    For me, if you only have one Hard disk drive, you should partition it so you can install the system OS on one partition, leave a comfortable 30GB for this. Just in case you need to reformat your system when you get viruses or problems.

    Cheers,
     
    evansgambit, Jun 9, 2008
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  3. tphilly1984

    tphilly1984 Notebook Evangelist

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    If you use the VIAO recovery utility to burn off the two DVD's that it says to do, they have all of the recovery data needed so you can format the recovery partition just don't damage or lose the dvd's. It will only give you around 1 - 2Gb of extra space, I know that's how much it takes up on mine
     
    tphilly1984, Jun 9, 2008
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  4. MaXimus

    MaXimus Notebook Deity

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    I deleted it since day one~

    A clean install is 100 times better than the crappy bloatware OS sony gives u
     
    MaXimus, Jun 9, 2008
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    ufogeek Notebook Consultant

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    i am looking to buy a Sony vaio laptop - how do you clean install on Sony Vaio laptop? Does it come with Vista OS DVD?
     
    ufogeek, Jun 9, 2008
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  6. MaXimus

    MaXimus Notebook Deity

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    No it doesn't there are guides on the forum of where to download the Vista DVD from, then you can burn it. And install, when asked for the product key type the one found underneath your laptop
     
    MaXimus, Jun 9, 2008
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  7. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Just make sure you create the DVD recovery set first. The recovery partition will be USELESS on a memory stick. You won't ever be able to boot from it without putting it back on the hard drive, where the BIOS expects it. The DVD set, however is standalone and will function just fine all by itself.

    Some of the clean install instructions use things stored on the DVD set too. So cvreate it FIRST if you must delete the partition.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Jun 9, 2008
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