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Windows Vista Recovery Disc ( D ) in Windows Utimate OS

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by drforbes, 2007/09/15.

  1. 2007/09/15
    drforbes

    drforbes Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have a HPm7767nTVPC with a 6700 Intel Core 2 Dual@2.4GBs, 4GBs of Ram, 600HDD which is quite fast. The problem is that I only have 6% Free Space on Internal Recovery Disc D. I have tried everything to regain capacity on this disc to no avail. Can someone please assist as HP support was useless!
     
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  2. 2007/09/16
    Steve R Jones

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    So you want to zap the recovery partition and or its contents?

    Do you have a method to restore if needed?
     
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  4. 2007/09/17
    mattman

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    It may be fine at 6% freespace, at least, I don't worry about the freespace on the recovery drive, it is not a "dynamic" file system.

    Check if you can make recovery optical disks. Make them.

    Don't expect that if the OS drive cannot run, the "recovery" drive will put everything back to where it was, it will probably reinstall to the way it shipped from the factory. If the HDD fails, it is all gone, recovery drive, OS drive, everything on that HDD.

    Investigate what backup methods are available. Backup your important data to another HDD or optical disks.

    Matt
     
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