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January 28th, 2010 10:00
Question about Win7 & my recovery partition.
I have a Dell Inspiron that came pre-installed with Win7 when I got it. I had to do a re-install of the OS and I followed the prompts on the Win7 disc that came with the laptop. What I ended up with is 2 OSs, and my recovery partition is completely full and showing up as red when I go to look at the drive under Computer. Tried a few different ways now to restore it to the original version and lose the extra version, and I CAN boot to either one, and they run... but now what about my recovery drive? Tried to format it and it won't let me.
Any idea what I should do about this?
Thanks ahead of time to anyone who comments back.
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C3PO5
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January 28th, 2010 11:00
Hi
You have installed the second 7 windows to the recovery partition when you reinstalled with the 7 DVD you have over written the recovery partition and you can not use the {F8 recovery it is gone and can not be replaced} what you have to do now is reinstall win 7 with the DVD and delete all of the partitions and just make one partition to install win 7 !!
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C3PO5
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January 28th, 2010 12:00
If I go to re-install 7 for a third time, is it going to over-write what's on the C partition, the main partition? Will it LET me remove the other partitions?
Hi
From what i understand the boot manager for the C:\ OS is on the D:\ now and the only way is to reinstall with the DVD and delete all of the partitions and make the new one and install win 7 to that partition .
will I be able to re-create a new recovery partition? no its gone and can not be replaced .
Would doing a system backup overwrite all that and then alleviate the issue? if would have made a complete PC backup to a internal or external drive you could recover it that way , if you did not it is still gone and can not be replaced .
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shira0524
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January 28th, 2010 12:00
Well, I don't really know how that happened, since I only followed what the disc said to do, but yes, it seems so.
So, a couple of questions then if I may...
If I go to re-install 7 for a third time, is it going to over-write what's on the C partition, the main partition? Will it LET me remove the other partitions? I tried going in to change them to see if I could at least make the one partition bigger and I could not change it. Once I delete all the other partitions, will I be able to re-create a new recovery partition? If the original install is still running on the main partition, is there any way I can just get rid of what's on the recovery? Would doing a system backup overwrite all that and then alleviate the issue?
Thank you, again.