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August 15th, 2006 12:00
Recovery CD & Partition Size
Hi
I just bought a Dell desktop PC for the first time, and would appreciate fellow members' input on how to accomplish the following.
The hard disk partition containing Windows is 20GB in size. Would I be able to change the partition size to 10GB and reinstall Windows using the recovery CD which came with the computer? I know how to do this with the retail version of Windows, but am not sure if the Dell recovery CD can be used in a similar fashion.
Further, if I resize the partition to 10GB using Partition Magic, can the recovery CD still be used to reinstall Windows? I found out that, in similar change-of-partition-size circumstances, my (non-Dell) notebook's recovery CD could no longer be used to reinstall Windows.
Any feedback would be most welcome.
Thanks!
I just bought a Dell desktop PC for the first time, and would appreciate fellow members' input on how to accomplish the following.
The hard disk partition containing Windows is 20GB in size. Would I be able to change the partition size to 10GB and reinstall Windows using the recovery CD which came with the computer? I know how to do this with the retail version of Windows, but am not sure if the Dell recovery CD can be used in a similar fashion.
Further, if I resize the partition to 10GB using Partition Magic, can the recovery CD still be used to reinstall Windows? I found out that, in similar change-of-partition-size circumstances, my (non-Dell) notebook's recovery CD could no longer be used to reinstall Windows.
Any feedback would be most welcome.
Thanks!
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fudgieguys
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August 15th, 2006 15:00
I think you posted this at this forum.
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=si_newusers&message.id=37929#M37929
Suggest just using just one forum to post messages.