using Recovery disks after resizing partitions

Generally speaking Recovery disks revert the m/c to the as delivered state - e.g. if the drive was originally a single partition and the user has subsequently partitioned it, the Recovery disk will revert the m/c back to a single partition, with the loss of all data on the other partitions. I know that to my cost

If the drive was partitioned as delivered with the OS on one partition and the other blank for data the Recovery disk formats only the OS partition - done this with a Sony Vaio.

Bottom line is read the manual for using Recovery disks - the Vaio manual was very good on this.

Not too sure what would happen if the OS partition was resized and then a Recovery disk used - my guess is that it would probably not be good news!

Setting the partitions back to where they were may not work as I guess you need to replicate the settings of the original partitions exactly.

A call to PB support may be in order here.