Does having Acronis mean I can uninstall Samsung recovery without probs ?

Hi all, I just wanted to ask if I should uninstall Samsung recovery solution (4), as I have Acronis True Image home 2010 which is a very good & reliable app indeed. I currently do fairly regular C drive images with it and sometimes bother doing a new Samsung full backup image aswell, I feel this is an unnecessary duplication.

So, should I get rid of the Samsung and just use Acronis? and does this mean I can also delete the 15gb recovery partition and claim that space?.........or should I just keep it the way it is and have 2 recovery solutions?...........any advice would be very much appreciated, thank you.

R530 laptop, core i3 330M cpu, 3gb ram, 320 hd, Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit. (I keep all data on D drive, sized @ 200+ gb with C @75gb)

 

Samsung's recovery solution operates at 2 levels: Program and BIOS (press F4(?) at the BIOS screen to enter. The BIOS option allows recovery even if Windows is broken. Run it to see what it can offer. The recovery partition probably contains the birthday image which may be worth keeping while there should also be either a factory image or recovery DVD.

My suggestion is that you could remove SRS and just use Acronis for future backups but check what is in the recovery partition before deleting it. You may, however, be able to shrink the recovery partition using partition management software in order to get access to the unused space.

John

 

Thanks very much for your answer, I think the recovery partition contains the initial image created at 1st use, ie. the factory (or 'birthday' as you call it) image.

I'll take your advice and keep it, I'm not desperate for the space, I just thought that Samsung Recovery Solution was using the inbuilt windows 'create system image' tool but rebadged.

I also think that Acronis can add a boot entry (press F11 for Acronis Options), which, correct me if I'm wrong. means that it can also operate at the BIOS level....

At the end of the day, it will do me no harm to have dual recovery options/systems in place, I was just thinking of the potentially slightly cleaner/leaner option of having just the one, if you see where I'm coming from.

Once again, thanks for your help.

 

1. A real factory image doesn't contain an user settings whereas the "birthday" image (ie when first used) does. However, Samsung may not offer the former (which is inconvenient if you want to wipe the computer and sell it).

2. You have the option of creating a bootable Acronis CD which can do everything that the BIOS version of SRS can do, and more. I always use the bootable CD when doing any disk cloning.

John

 

Thanks.........