HP Recovery With Two Drives?

[Coolio10]

My Computer came with two 500gb drives. One has vista on it and one was empty until i filled it . I want to use HP Recovery and hoping it only erases the vista partition. According to hp support it will only erase the vista partition but has anyone experienced this?

[Aaron Here]

That's correct, but you would be wise to use a disk-imaging program rather than depend on the HP recovery partition. HP's emergency recovery recovers your system to the state it was in when it was shipped - that's not very desirable after removing the trial programs and adding your own apps!

[Coolio10]

Originally Posted by Aaron Here

That's correct, but you would be wise to use a disk-imaging program rather than depend on the HP recovery partition. HP's emergency recovery recovers your system to the state it was in when it was shipped - that's not very desirable after removing the trial programs and adding your own apps!

Correct it will erase my files or won't?

[Aaron Here]

As I said, your C-drive/partition would revert to the state it was shipped in, so any and all files added to C: after receiving the PC would be lost by running the HP recovery, although D:, etc, would not be affected...

Get and regulary use a disk-imaging backup program!

[Coolio10]

Originally Posted by Aaron Here

As I said, your C-drive/partition would revert to the state it was shipped in, so any and all files added to C: after receiving the PC would be lost by running the HP recovery, although D:, etc, would not be affected...

Get and regulary use a disk-imaging backup program!

Actually D: is the recovery partition. E: was the empty drive.

[Aaron Here]

Originally Posted by Coolio10

Actually D: is the recovery partition. E: was the empty drive.

No matter - what I said about D: applies to any drive/partition other than C: