Dell Studio Restore partition question

I just copied the partition's contents (not the same as Ghosting it, I know) to an external HDD. My question is, as long as I have my Dell OEM DVD's and backups of my drivers, do I need this partition at all? I opened the laptop yesterday, booted it once and then formatted it. After a little bit of work, it's now wayyy faster than it was outta the box. So, since I was able to format the C:\ drive and reinstall all the required drivers without doing any damage, should my copy/paste backup of this partition be enough? I can't see me ever needing it anyway, as long as I have those drivers I downloaded last night and my original discs. Any thoughts?

 

I dont think copying that will do you any good because they also use a custom bootloader (i think). Regardless i think you are best off with the dvd and driver disks for restoring it.

 

Ahhh. so that's its purpose in life? To make a restore easy? I'm either making my own image without all the outta the box software, or just formatting every 6 months or so. Looks like I can just remove it anyway then, huh?

Thanks

 

Yeah, id say just delete it The default install of vista/xp stinks from dell. Thats the first thing i do when i get a new one before i even boot it up is to format reinstall it.

 

Heh, yeah, I don't EVER want this thing to be in the shape it was in when I first booted it up. I will give Dell some credit though, they include a plain old Windows disc with things. I was worried there'd be a 'special' garbage-ridden one in the box.

Thanks for the answers nizzy!

 

No problem! I love the disks too! Its one of the reasons i like buying laptops from dell is for that disk!

 

I also like dell for this reason.
I know that HP does the opposite. They don't come with discs at all.
You must use burn the recovery media(OS) on your own discs.
Then you use the discs to re install and all that bloatware is right there.
I've dealt with 2 hp laptops and I would use my own plain windows cd to re install then install the drivers afterward.

 

Wow, I was thinking Dell or HP for our little Christmas gift. Glad I went with Dell. Most people probably wouldn't give a rat's, but I'm glad there's a few people here that think like I do when it comes to computers.