The recovery partition is just the factory image of the hard drive exactly as it came shipped from Dell. Based on the thoroughness of your backup plan, it probably serves no useful purpose.
The Mediadirect partition is simply personal choice. And it's not terribly hard to reinstall it if needed.
The diagnostics are just as easily run from a CD or flash drive. In fact, depending on what you are testing, you need to be able to run it from a variety of bootable devices. Again, it's up to you as to whether you want to keep it, but it's so small, there's little to be gained by deleting it.
I have decided to get rid of Recovery partition and the MediaDirect partition. That will cut down around 6Gb of data, That should speed up imaging a bit. That will leave me with around 40GB data to backup. I just cannot understand why vista takes up so much space. All I got in the 40GB is the OS, programs and documents. No media files. I need to find out how to trim down vista.
I too have decided to get rid of the D: Recovery partition. I have tried deleting files, but it won't let me. How do I get rid of them? I am tired of the pop up reminding me that the D parition is full. I have the backup CD's if I ever have to reinstall the OS.
osprey4
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May 6th, 2010 07:00
Hi Yudi,
The recovery partition is just the factory image of the hard drive exactly as it came shipped from Dell. Based on the thoroughness of your backup plan, it probably serves no useful purpose.
The Mediadirect partition is simply personal choice. And it's not terribly hard to reinstall it if needed.
The diagnostics are just as easily run from a CD or flash drive. In fact, depending on what you are testing, you need to be able to run it from a variety of bootable devices. Again, it's up to you as to whether you want to keep it, but it's so small, there's little to be gained by deleting it.
rv987a654
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May 7th, 2010 07:00
I have decided to get rid of Recovery partition and the MediaDirect partition. That will cut down around 6Gb of data, That should speed up imaging a bit. That will leave me with around 40GB data to backup. I just cannot understand why vista takes up so much space. All I got in the 40GB is the OS, programs and documents. No media files. I need to find out how to trim down vista.
Thanks for your input, very helpful.
Yudi
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May 7th, 2010 12:00
You're welcome.
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I too have decided to get rid of the D: Recovery partition. I have tried deleting files, but it won't let me. How do I get rid of them? I am tired of the pop up reminding me that the D parition is full. I have the backup CD's if I ever have to reinstall the OS.
Hal
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October 24th, 2010 05:00
Halby58,
If you simply want to delete the recovery partition, you can use disk management.