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Unknown Recovery Partition of HD
Name: xshingox Date: December 29, 2005 at 18:37:31 Pacific OS: Windows XP/2000 CPU/Ram: P4
Comment:
When I go into Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management, I see that besides the 2 volumes that I have, I see a third partition with volume name "Recovery" and the status says "Unknown Partition". It takes up 1.76GB. I was wondering if it is safe to delete such partition and merge it with my other ones using Partition Magic to get more HD space.
Name: Chuck 2 Date: December 29, 2005 at 19:05:24 Pacific
Reply:
On my Compaq computer a partition says System_sav for a name, and Healthy for status.
If yours is a FAT32 file system partition, and XP is on NTFS partition, then it may be saved system files for restoring your computer to factory condition. Like my Recovery CD will need that partition. HP owns Compaq now.
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Response Number 2
Name: xshingox Date: December 29, 2005 at 19:22:05 Pacific
Reply:
My computer is a laptop. I initially had all my partitions FAT32 and I converted them to NTFS. If I really dont care abt recovery, is it still safe to delete the Recovery partition and merge it to one of the two with Partition Magic?
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Response Number 3
Name: Chuck 2 Date: December 29, 2005 at 19:38:25 Pacific
Reply:
Well I will say that I had to buy(was cheap) other CDs to place XP on a new HDD, and have Recovery partition. My computer does not use the Recovery partition at all, for normal operation of the OS. So my guess is it is Safe to delete.
Wait about a day or so for replies from others.
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Response Number 4
Name: xshingox Date: December 29, 2005 at 19:57:01 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the information Chuck2.
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Response Number 5
Name: lukeles Date: December 29, 2005 at 20:19:27 Pacific
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