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    Removing the Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mdawgig, Apr 11, 2009.

  1. mdawgig

    mdawgig Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I purchased my HP G60t, it came with a 10GB recovery partition on the hard drive. I have since burned recovery disks. Can I delete that partition and re-claim that 10 GB?

    Edit: Also, I have 3GB of RAM. Would disabling VRam do anything to either performance or HDD space?
     
    mdawgig, Apr 11, 2009
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  2. Full-English

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    You can if you want, that would be entirely up to you, but if your disks go missing or get damaged, you may be screwed unless you have a 2nd backup option!!!
     
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  3. mdawgig

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    I could buy one from HP right? Like, I wouldn't be totally screwed if one of those things did happen because I could buy recovery disks from HP?
     
    mdawgig, Apr 11, 2009
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    Not sure, I know you can with Acer so I guess HP probably do it. Just if you needed your machine in a hurry and it went down, and your disks were screwed. Quite a lot to go wrong in one go there, but you never know it does happen!!!! :)
     
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    You can always download recovery disks for free form torrent sites. It should be legal because you own the operating system's license, you own the backup disks.
     
    jackluo923, Apr 11, 2009
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    Mmmm, but then again, you never know exactly what you're getting with a "free" download - if it's been spiked with malware it could end up being quite expensive. :D
     
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    You can delete the recovery partition but make sure you keep the discs safe. You can't copy the recovery discs. If you do use the recovery partition all your installed programs will be unuseable anyways. I did this once and it did recover to the original state it was in but with the installed programs still there. If you can get one from HP.. made specifically for your system exactly.. don't get the 64bit if you have a 32bit system.
     
    kanehi, Apr 12, 2009
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