Partitioning and Recovery

[jywc]

I am planning to partition my drive to a different scheme than what I received out-of-the-box (A8Js). However, I am worried if this may prevent or make it harder to use the recovery CD in the future...
Any opinions, personal experiences, or facts would be greatly appreciated!

[Nrbelex]

Not personal experience but everyone on this forum will tell you there are no complications with the recovery partition when done properly and it's a lot safer in the long run should anything ever happen to your OS. I'm definitely doing it with my W3J upon receiving it. There's an excellent guide somewhere in the "for dummies" forum here.

~ Brett

[jywc]

Sorry, but what I meant to ask is:
Will re-partitioning my drive affect future use of the recovery CD/partition?

(I want to make more partitions, and I plan to keep the recovery partition.)

[Nrbelex]

Sorry, but what I meant to ask is:
Will re-partitioning my drive affect future use of the recovery CD/partition?

(I want to make more partitions, and I plan to keep the recovery partition.)

No, my fault - Obviously I didn't answer clearly enough - No as long as you leave the recovery partition in an untouched state. Even if you did through some crazy accident, the recovery CD has everything you need to bring things back to tip-top shape.

~ Brett

[lucasd]

You don't need recovery partition if you have recovery CD's....

[jywc]

No as long as you leave the recovery partition in an untouched state.

Great! Thanks!

[siLc]

No point in posting a new thread for one related question, so...

I've deleted the recovery partition on my F3Jc and repartitioned the whole drive into a smaller dedicated WinXP/installed programs part and 2 "stuff" parts - one bigger, one smaller. If I need to do a clean XP reinstall, I would gladly refrain from using the recovery disk and use an ordinary XP Home OEM install disk so I wouldn't have to repartition my disk and maybe even risk the loss of the "stuff" parts once the factory XP install is restored.
As I've heard, there is no other way other than to use the recovery disk as far as OS legality is concerned ?

[lucasd]

NO it's possible to use, bit also using recovery CD and taking option install on first partition or something like that, leaves your partition system intact.

After I got W3j I deleted, partitions, made my own (about 6 or so) and installed without a problem....

[Kal]

I deleted my recovery partition a while ago. Is there a way to get it back? It's so much easier/faster using the recovery partition.

[kju204]

ok, so it isn't a good idea to reformat the laptop to be one large partition?
I was going to clean install XP Pro on my W3Jp when it arrives and get rid of the 2nd partition and have one NTFS partition running everything.
Is there a need for the second partition?