Installed programs in D restore partition

You can leave them on the D partition. You will now have to use the disks to do a reinstall if you need to. You will not be able to use the recovery partition to do a factory restore.

If you have the Dell Factory Image Restore utility (F8 restore) which mounts factory.wim (on D: RECOVERY) into C: OS, then you CAN leave them there and still have the Factory Restore functionality.  You probably won't be able to use them as installed programs after a restore but the restore will work and it will leave those files on D: untouched.  I've done it many times without fail.  I was a little concerned the first time so I left a test folder on D: and restored.  It was all still there.

 

If you repartition or do other things to the hard drive you may lose the recovery console but you usually still can remount the factory image from a command prompt.

 

Tom
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I would uninstall the programs, reboot and reinstall on the C partition. You still cannot use Recovery, but it would be better to have all your programs on the C drive so you don't have trouble later on. Program files can grow and the D part. is small. Make sure you are not regularly using the D partition for anything--no downloads or backups. Windows remembers which partition you used before so check the destination every time you add something. Backups need to be on a different physical drive--internal or external--not on a diff partition.

Hi

I agree 100 percent with with zrtom on this i installed a hunting game to D:\Recovery

and going back to factory setup is no problem at all the game stays on D:\ with no

problems to the factory restore !

I used D:\ to run the game because it runs faster from there than it did from C:\ .

Because D:\ is the center of the drive and is does not lag like it did in C:\ .

Good Luck  

Well, I guess I'll leave well enough alone! Thank's for the advice!!