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reinstalling vista with oem recovery drive
Hi, I want to format my vista to reinstall it with my recovery drive. Here`s the question when i bought my pc i made 3 other partition on my hard drive. If i reinstall with the recovery drive will it reset my partition and put it back has one hard drive? Thank in advance. Guic -- guic |
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reinstalling vista with oem recovery drive
Hi Guic, You have posted on the News Group - were you intending to post on the Vista Forum ? If so, click this link and post in the top half of the page where it says Vista Forum - the bottom half is the News Group. http://www.vistax64.com/ If you are trying to restore a manufacturer image, it is unlikely you will be able to do that on what is now a smaller partition. Post the make and model of your machine, along with your question, and there is a good chance someone with a similar machine will be able to advise. Hope it helps SIW2 guic;997407 Wrote: Hi, I want to format my vista to reinstall it with my recovery drive. Here`s the question when i bought my pc i made 3 other partition on my hard drive. If i reinstall with the recovery drive will it reset my partition and put it back has one hard drive? Thank in advance. Guic -- SIW2 |
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reinstalling vista with oem recovery drive
You would have to check the manual that came with your computer and/or their
support web site. Some computers allow you to reinstall only Windows, others will wipe everything on the system and put it back to exactly the same way you bought it. Only the documentation that came with your system will tell you for sure which is the case with you. "guic" wrote in message ... Hi, I want to format my vista to reinstall it with my recovery drive. Here`s the question when i bought my pc i made 3 other partition on my hard drive. If i reinstall with the recovery drive will it reset my partition and put it back has one hard drive? Thank in advance. Guic -- guic |
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reinstalling vista with oem recovery drive
With most makes of computers, using the recovery partition will restore the system partiton (usually c drive) back to a factory load, which will wipe out all data on that partition. The recovery should not mess with any other partitions. Also, do not make the system partiton too small by creating a lot of partitions. Vista may not recover or work correctly. Think about storing your data on an external hard drive instead of creating many partitions. It is safer and if anything happens to the computer, your data is backed up. -- merkat106 |
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reinstalling vista with oem recovery drive
merkat106 wrote:
With most makes of computers, using the recovery partition will restore the system partiton (usually c drive) back to a factory load, which will wipe out all data on that partition. The recovery should not mess with any other partitions. Also, do not make the system partiton too small by creating a lot of partitions. Vista may not recover or work correctly. Think about storing your data on an external hard drive instead of creating many partitions. It is safer and if anything happens to the computer, your data is backed up. No, it isn't "backed up". What if THAT drive fails and everything else is still fine? |