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    'SamsungRecovery' folder - safe to remove?

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by Freakish, Jul 23, 2010.

  1. Freakish

    Freakish Notebook Geek

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    Can the 'SamsungRecovery' folder in Drive D be removed safely? My Samsung netbook has 2 partitions, C: and D: ; and the 'SamsungRecovery' folder is in D.

    I am thinking of deleting that folder to save space, and if possible, just burn its contents to a DVD before removing it.

    Is this like HP's Recovery partition which can be backupped to a writeable DVD+R and then removed?
     
    Freakish, Jul 23, 2010
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    See what the Samsung recovery utility has to offer. I recall two functions: (i) To make a "birthday" backup of the initial user configuration and (ii) to make user backups of the C: partition. Several of the latter backups can start to use a lot of space. You could either delete them or store them offline.

    I think there is also a factory image which can be used to restore C: but this is in a hidden partition. (This used to be accessed by pressing F4 (?) on initial bootup).

    Read the user guide first but I think you can remove those files at risk of losing some redundancy in the backups.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 23, 2010
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