Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
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From: Star on 25 Mar 2010 20:19 On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:23:37 -0500, "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:52:56 GMT, "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> >wrote: > >>I omitted.... >> >>You can delete the Recovery partition and keep a functioning Utility >>partition. >> > > >And / or use Acronis to more or less do the same. Talking about removing partitions with Acronis I assume Disk Director. Good news bad news time. Acronis Disk Director is at version 10 which is not compatible with Windows 7 (have tried it.) I have been a happy user of Acronis both True Image and Disk Director for many years but am now wondering why 6 to 7 months after the introduction of Windows 7 they don't have a patch for Ver 10 or an upgrade to Ver 11. Art
From: RnR on 26 Mar 2010 09:25 On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:28:15 GMT, "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >"RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >news:2r0nq5d9hlokgidhcgrsv4vtv79mgcod93(a)4ax.com... >> Some say not to blow it off but I tend to but then I replace it with >> Acronis's way of recovery in it's own hidden partition. To each his >> own of course. > >Sure. It is a personal choice. The main disadvantage of having any type of >recovery partition on the same HD as the OS is if there is a HD failure, you >lose both. > Excellent point !! Which is why I make a backup on an external drive too. I've thought of even doing it on 2 externals but I haven't done that yet. Sounds like you know your stuff :)
From: RnR on 26 Mar 2010 09:28 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:19:00 +1000, Star@*.* wrote: >On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:23:37 -0500, "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:52:56 GMT, "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> >>wrote: >> >>>I omitted.... >>> >>>You can delete the Recovery partition and keep a functioning Utility >>>partition. >>> >> >> >>And / or use Acronis to more or less do the same. > >Talking about removing partitions with Acronis I assume Disk Director. >Good news bad news time. Acronis Disk Director is at version 10 which >is not compatible with Windows 7 (have tried it.) >I have been a happy user of Acronis both True Image and Disk Director >for many years but am now wondering why 6 to 7 months after the >introduction of Windows 7 they don't have a patch for Ver 10 or an >upgrade to Ver 11. > >Art Appreciate that info. I haven't changed my main OS to win7 so I was unaware of this. I will keep my eyes open for this when / if I change over. May have to consider a replacement for TI and DD. Thanks Art for the info.
From: Star on 26 Mar 2010 20:34 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:28:34 -0500, "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:19:00 +1000, Star@*.* wrote: > >>On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:23:37 -0500, "RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:52:56 GMT, "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> >>>wrote: >>> >>>>I omitted.... >>>> >>>>You can delete the Recovery partition and keep a functioning Utility >>>>partition. >>>> >>> >>> >>>And / or use Acronis to more or less do the same. >> >>Talking about removing partitions with Acronis I assume Disk Director. >>Good news bad news time. Acronis Disk Director is at version 10 which >>is not compatible with Windows 7 (have tried it.) >>I have been a happy user of Acronis both True Image and Disk Director >>for many years but am now wondering why 6 to 7 months after the >>introduction of Windows 7 they don't have a patch for Ver 10 or an >>upgrade to Ver 11. >> >>Art > > >Appreciate that info. I haven't changed my main OS to win7 so I was >unaware of this. I will keep my eyes open for this when / if I >change over. May have to consider a replacement for TI and DD. >Thanks Art for the info. Yes good info that I found out by accident. I had DD10 so wanted to set up a Windows 7 machine about 3 months ago and did the partition of the HDD and installed Windows 7 and the system would not run after the first reboot so let Win7 format the partition I created and all went well. I then found an update to my DD10 and tried to install the updated version on my Win7 machine and got the "This program is not compatable with the current windows version" so would not install on Win7 at all. Art
From: Daddy on 27 Mar 2010 06:26
Daddy wrote: > I recently received a new Studio XPS 8100. I opted to keep the C: drive > pretty much as-is, and uninstalled most of the smell-ware that Dell adds. > > I'd really like to delete the extra two partitions that contain Dell's > diagnostics and the factory image. My first inclination was to simply > use the Diskpart command, but now I'm not so sure. > > My problem is: I don't really understand the boot process that well. I > believe Dell customizes the Master Boot Record to make it possible to > access those hidden partitions (with the right key combination.) If I > delete the extra partitions, do I risk making my computer unbootable? > > Daddy As a finale to this story: I used EasyBCD 2.0 (build 90) to reconfigure my computer to boot from the C: drive. EasyBCD setup a BCD store on C:, copied the existing BCD entries from the Recovery partition, and made the C: drive Active. All it took was one click. As effortless as that was, it took a lot for me to work myself up to that point. Windows 7 doesn't have 'blow away' as a context menu selection; I had to settle for 'Delete'. But my Recovery partition is now gone. Daddy |