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    vaio recovery question

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by qwerty, Apr 22, 2006.

  1. qwerty

    qwerty Notebook Geek

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    i have a sz120 and i havent done the recovery yet because i have a question.

    when i burn the recovery disks will the hidden partition be deleted or it will still be there? i've heard that the recovery partition in the SZ is about 7GB

    thanks in advance
     
    qwerty, Apr 22, 2006
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    Quaoar Notebook Enthusiast

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    The recovery partition remains in place. Simply forget the 7GB. This is a specially formatted partition that is difficult to remove (at least with PM8).

    DO burn the recovery set.

    Q
     
    Quaoar, Apr 22, 2006
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    ostack Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah, I would suggest leaving it also. When you get the point that you think you need that last 7G of your drive, You'll be able to easily justify buying a new 250G replacement. In the event that you are just handling tons of data, you should probably have a large external drive anyway.
     
    ostack, Apr 22, 2006
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    qwerty Notebook Geek

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    uhhhmenono Notebook Enthusiast

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    yes u can do a semi clean install with or without removing the partition. it gives u an option to do it in the first part of the recovery.

    actually with the recovery disks, if you do remove the recovery partition when u do a recovery with the disks, it can recreate the partition
     
    uhhhmenono, Apr 22, 2006
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