Hi Jay,

Welcome to the Community. Use the below link for help on how to partition your hard drive. Note: The hard drive will have a recovery partition and a diagnostic partition, and Dell does not recommend you modify these partitions.

www.dell.com/.../ArticleView

How to create Recovery Discs: www.dell.com/.../ShowFavoriteVideo

Hope this helps.

Thank you.

Hi Jay,

Yes use the article for windows 7, its the same.

Thank you.

I don't entirely trust the Dell DataSafe program. I would recomemnd supplementing your backup using Acronis True Image WD edition (if you have a WD internal/external hard drive) or alternatively using the 30 day trial of Acronis True Image 2013.

To do this follow the instructions on page 355 of Windows Reinstallation Guide and Related Wikies.

Follow Creating a Backup and Creating Bootable Media.

Hi Royan

Thanks for the reply. But I have Windows 8 on my laptop. Does the article you suggested apply to Windows 8?

Regards,

Jay