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Have you kept your "Recovery" drive?

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by akwit, Jul 16, 2009.

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    My E6400 came with a "recovery" drive, which I imagine is just a 15gb partition...
    Is it worth keeping?

    If not, how do I get rid of it and retrieve that free space?
     
    akwit, Jul 16, 2009
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    My E6400 came with small ~2GB partition with nothing useful in it... it was not a recovery drive. I asked Dell and they said No recovery on my E6400, so I deleted that partition during a clean install. I left the other small EISA partition... perhaps it is used by Dell diagnostics... so small not worth removing.

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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    I haven't kept my recovery drive. The recovery drive has an image of your out of the box Windows installation; if you never use the factory installation, you'll almost certainly never need the recovery partition. You can get rid of it just by deleting the partition or formatting your entire drive...
     
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