Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?
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From: Daddy on 23 Mar 2010 00:49 Brian K wrote: > Daddy, > > Have another look in Disk Management. The Recovery partition is not the Boot > partition. It is the System partition as it contains the booting files. I > know that doesn't sound correct but that's what Microsoft call it. Win7 is > the Boot partition as it contains the Windows folder. > > So if you delete the Recovery partition, Win7 won't boot. You will get this > error.. > > BOOTMGR is missing > Press Control Alt Delete to restart > > That's because you have deleted the booting files that were in the Recovery > partition. The procedure I described earlier is to copy the booting files > from the Recovery partition to the Win7 partition. This will allow Win7 to > boot on its own without needing a second partition containing the booting > files. > > Does this make sense? Having booting files outside of the Win7 partition is > going to cause problems for some folks when restoring images to a new HD > (say due to a HD failure) as two partitions will need to be restored to > allow Win7 to boot. > > Alright now, get ready: Daddy's going to eat crow. The whole premise behind my original post was my recollection that the Recovery partition was labeled Boot in Disk Management. On your suggestion, I checked again. Guess what I discovered? So forget all that convoluted stuff about the Master Boot Record; make like it was an entire season of Dallas. The key to success in removing the Recovery partition is knowing that /it/ contains the boot files, and not the C: drive...that's what you've been trying to tell me all along! Daddy
From: Brian K on 23 Mar 2010 05:03 Dallas was a great series. In its day. I loved JR.
From: RnR on 25 Mar 2010 07:22 On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:49:02 -0400, Daddy <daddy(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >Brian K wrote: >> Daddy, >> >> Have another look in Disk Management. The Recovery partition is not the Boot >> partition. It is the System partition as it contains the booting files. I >> know that doesn't sound correct but that's what Microsoft call it. Win7 is >> the Boot partition as it contains the Windows folder. >> >> So if you delete the Recovery partition, Win7 won't boot. You will get this >> error.. >> >> BOOTMGR is missing >> Press Control Alt Delete to restart >> >> That's because you have deleted the booting files that were in the Recovery >> partition. The procedure I described earlier is to copy the booting files >> from the Recovery partition to the Win7 partition. This will allow Win7 to >> boot on its own without needing a second partition containing the booting >> files. >> >> Does this make sense? Having booting files outside of the Win7 partition is >> going to cause problems for some folks when restoring images to a new HD >> (say due to a HD failure) as two partitions will need to be restored to >> allow Win7 to boot. >> >> > >Alright now, get ready: Daddy's going to eat crow. > >The whole premise behind my original post was my recollection that the >Recovery partition was labeled Boot in Disk Management. On your >suggestion, I checked again. > >Guess what I discovered? > >So forget all that convoluted stuff about the Master Boot Record; make >like it was an entire season of Dallas. > >The key to success in removing the Recovery partition is knowing that >/it/ contains the boot files, and not the C: drive...that's what you've >been trying to tell me all along! > >Daddy How much space do you gain?
From: RnR on 25 Mar 2010 07:23 On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:52:56 GMT, "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >I omitted.... > >You can delete the Recovery partition and keep a functioning Utility >partition. > And / or use Acronis to more or less do the same.
From: Brian K on 25 Mar 2010 07:28
"RnR" <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:8qhmq594iqag88n4dvtrcl908rnb71kbho(a)4ax.com... >> > How much space do you gain? About 10 GB. I think the recovery partition is that size. |