The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    How do I re-create the recovery partition?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by genesis5521, May 9, 2009.

  1. genesis5521

    genesis5521 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have a Compaq laptop with Vista. It had a recovery partition which I removed. I now want to re-create that factory partition. I have the DVD's to do a factory restore. My question is if I do the factory restore, will it also re-create the recovery partition.
     
    genesis5521, May 9, 2009
    #1
  2. Matrix_XII

    Matrix_XII Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    16
    Messages:
    169
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    dont think so . most recovery only recover the OS itself. no the partition
     
    Matrix_XII, May 9, 2009
    #2
  3. deeastman

    deeastman Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    977
    Messages:
    1,095
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Yes! When you use the DVD's to do a factory restore your harddisk will be imaged just as it was when your notebook was new out of the box.
     
    deeastman, May 9, 2009
    #3