will adding partition on HDD affects recovery CD that was made?

Not a good idea to partition the drive at all. It will cause problems. Recovery on the same hard drive is handled by windows. Recovery disks allow you to access the recovery partitions when you cannot access the option within windows. There are 2 recovery options available within windows with no disks needed-- in Windows PC Settings, General--Refresh which reinstalls the windows system files but keeps your personal files while removing every program you added OR Remove and reinstall which keeps nothing and returns the drive to Factory Settings--basically a Clean Install.

BTW, always a good idea to test your Recovery disks to make sure they work. You don't have to go through with the recovery. Just see if the disks let you access the hidden partitions or DataSafe if that is what you used. The best Windows recovery disk is a Thumb drive, not a series of dvd's or cd's. Most users have reported that multiple disks don't work. A 2GB thumb drive can be used for a Recovery drive. The recovery drive will be the only thing on the drive. Search for Create a Recovery drive in Settings.

If you haven't done this already--open Disk Management to see how the drive is partitioned. Windows key + X will get you there quickly. Read this: gcn.com/.../say-goodbye-bios-hello-uefi.aspx And research more on drive partitioning in windows 8.

Theres a few things I recommend you to do:

1. Don't create recovery DVDs instead create a recovery USB; if one DVD fails to burn incorrectly (which is quite common) then you have no recovery media. See page 428 of Windows Reinstallation Guide.

2. I also advise creating an image of your hard drive using Acronis and saving it to an external hard drive. See page 333-348 of Windows Reinstallation Guide.

3. You can also restore your system to the factory settings and create an additional hard drive image of the factory settings using Acronis.

4. You can use Acronis to restore your image that you made (before reverting to the factory settings).

5. You can then repartition your hard drive using EaseUS Partition Manager see page 349 of Windows Reinstallation Guide. You can then create another image using Acronis. The internal factory restore function will be lost through use of EaseUS partition manager.

Windows Reinstallation Guide and Related Wikies: http://philipyip.wordpress.com/dell-community-forums/

hii,, if you have repartitioned your drive and there is any error then you may lose your data and to recover the important data you can use the provides solution .

hello everyone,

If you re- partitioned your hard drive and if suddenly some error occur, It lead the data lose only happened in C: All other colon data are safe. But, windows will be corrupted. You will need replace Operating system  again to install. Format only c drive at the top of  second partition and take backup for new one (recommended usb/create image disk).

First partition System Reserved
Second Partition C:
Third Partition Other and so on

Disk partitioning is the way of creation of one or more regions on a hard disk or other secondary storage, so that an operating system can manage information in each region separately. it will help to use of multi-boot setups, which allow users to have more than one operating system on a single computer. Also, it easier to recover a corrupted file system or operating system installation. If one partition is corrupted, other file systems may not be affected.

In case of adding partition on HDD, does not affects recovery CD that was made. But it migh be possible if you have re-partitioned your drive and there is any error then you may lose your data and to recover the important data you can use the provides solution.

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