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    Recovery Partition seems outdated perhaps

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by CBS, Jan 25, 2009.

  1. CBS

    CBS Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi There, I am running an older HP dv6000 which was partitioned with a Primary C: drive, a D: Recovery Partition, and a no lettered invisible unknown partition which is only about a 1Gb.

    I am in the process of Migrating to a larger internal drive.

    Do I really need the Recovery Partition / and the invisible unknown one ? The last thing I would want is to restore to a 2 year old XP SP1/SP2 with no updates, and no installed applications.

    -I plan on keeping the original HP drive untouched after the migrate in storage.
    -The new hard drive ideally will not have the recovery partition which will give another 12 GB
    -I plan on cloning the new hard drive to a third HDD, weekly / monthly as an emergency restore drive which can be physically swapped in an out of the computer if needed.

    Lastly the unknown partition was not recognized by disk manager and Partition Magic, and said that it was not installed by the OS and might contain data for hardware etc... - How important is this partition ?
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    I have gone ahead , Migrated to the new HDD, deleted the Recovery partition / unknown partition, and consolidated / defragged the free space.

    So far I have not had any problems.

    Do you think this is safe ? Or should I go back and perform another Migrate with the Recovery / and mystery unknown partition ?

    Thanks
    CBS
     
    CBS, Jan 25, 2009
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  2. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    You don’t need it. You have those cloned images to revert back to if something goes wrong. And you can always use a normal XP CD in the worst case scenario.
     
    PhoenixFx, Jan 25, 2009
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  3. CBS

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    Thanks Phoenix,

    It's reassuring to hear it from an experienced user.

    Also......

    In the future I am thinking about partitioning my drive so that the OS / Applications take up 8-10% or so of the Drive which apparently is the fastest part of the platter (outer edge) . I will partition the rest of the drive for Media files, Itunes Music folder, photos, videos etc.

    Can I move the My Pictures / My Music folders to the "Media Partition? " ; and will the shortcuts in the start menu go to the new partition ?
     
    CBS, Jan 25, 2009
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