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October 21st, 2009 09:00
Installing Windows 7 but what to do with my Recovery Partition?
I'm about to install windows 7 Professional Edition 64bit on my Vista Home Edition 64bit Inspiron 1545 laptop. So far I'm planning to do a clean install so I'll wipe my C: drive clean and put the OS on there. What will happen with my recovery partition E: once I install win7? As far as I know the partition provides the recovery to Vista only, once I have win7 it probably won't be of much use to me unless I decide to move back to Vista. I still have my Dell support CDs with me and they can also act as recovery tools.
Should I get rid of the partition when I'm installing win7 or keep it?
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fireberd
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October 21st, 2009 10:00
On most systems, if you install a different OS than is on the recovery partition, that partition becomes corrupted and can't be used. I usually tell users not to mess with the recovery partion, howver, given that you have the Dell discs and the low probability you will want to go back to Vista I would say remove it
dcgtls
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October 21st, 2009 10:00
I agree, delete it and don't look back.
Jorgelina
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October 21st, 2009 13:00
I also agree, best you can do is erase all partitions...
I've been told that you should not create (or if you did because u wanted to have 2 different partitions, 1 for the OS and 1 for Data) the partition in which Win7 will be store, and let the system create it, since it also creates a system partition of 100MB (like a swap partition as Linux does).