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    Creating Partitions

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by DR650SE, Mar 2, 2009.

  1. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Hey guys, I just go a new harddrive that I wanted to install as my primary HD. Its a Western Digital 320GB 7200rpd drive. My question is since I will be reinstalling Vista and all the other programs, how do I recreate the Recovery partition that is on my current HD. Thanks again. As far as backing up things, I have a 2nd HD bay where I have a 500GB installed for all my saved music videos, files ect so its not a problem. thanks again for any guidence
     
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  2. Cin'

    Cin' Anathema

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    Which model do you have? :D

    Cin ;) :)
     
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    AH, Inspiron 1720,
     
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    There is no need to recreate a recovery partition since you have the restore DVD. In fact, if you were even going to attempt it, it would be at least 10x harder than doing a fresh install and you will benefit much more from a fresh install.
     
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