HP Recovery With Two Drives?

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  1. Coolio10

    Coolio10 Registered Member

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    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?
     
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    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!
     
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    Correct it will erase my files or won't?
     
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    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! :thumb:
     
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    Actually D: is the recovery partition. E: was the empty drive.
     
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    No matter - what I said about D: applies to any drive/partition other than C: ;)
     
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