How To Create Recovery Partition On Hard Drive
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From: ColTom2 on 22 Jan 2010 19:26 Hi: I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3. Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB. I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please post detail instructions. Thanks, ColTom2
From: SC Tom on 22 Jan 2010 21:48 "ColTom2" <noemailaddress(a)nomail.com> wrote in message news:0F5677CE-4A69-481D-BDE2-DEA1DD83022D(a)microsoft.com... > Hi: > > I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the > Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3. > Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB. > > I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to > create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please post > detail instructions. > > Thanks, > > ColTom2 > > You would probably be better off checking on Sony's support site, or in the Sony forums, if there are any. Even if you are able to, you'll more than likely destroy the data that's already on the drive. Since you have the recovery DVD, why not just keep it in a safe place, and maybe make a copy of it for back-up's sake? It'll work just as well as having the recovery on a drive partition. Of course, just creating a regular drive image to an external drive is the best guarantee of saving your data. When the HDD on my notebook crashed, I lost my recovery partition, but I had a system partition image, so I was back up and running in a short period of time. Plus, I didn't have to load any drivers, service packs, updates, etc. since it was all there in the image. I wouldn't mourn the loss of the recovery partition if I were you :-) -- SC Tom
From: ColTom2 on 23 Jan 2010 10:04 Hi: I agree with what you have said, but was just trying to see if there was a simple way to accomplish what I asked. Thanks, ColTom2 "SC Tom" <sc(a)tom.net> wrote in message news:uOQ$Ja9mKHA.4392(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... "ColTom2" <noemailaddress(a)nomail.com> wrote in message news:0F5677CE-4A69-481D-BDE2-DEA1DD83022D(a)microsoft.com... > Hi: > > I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the > Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3. > Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB. > > I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to > create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please post > detail instructions. > > Thanks, > > ColTom2 > > You would probably be better off checking on Sony's support site, or in the Sony forums, if there are any. Even if you are able to, you'll more than likely destroy the data that's already on the drive. Since you have the recovery DVD, why not just keep it in a safe place, and maybe make a copy of it for back-up's sake? It'll work just as well as having the recovery on a drive partition. Of course, just creating a regular drive image to an external drive is the best guarantee of saving your data. When the HDD on my notebook crashed, I lost my recovery partition, but I had a system partition image, so I was back up and running in a short period of time. Plus, I didn't have to load any drivers, service packs, updates, etc. since it was all there in the image. I wouldn't mourn the loss of the recovery partition if I were you :-) -- SC Tom
From: SC Tom on 23 Jan 2010 12:17 Sorry, I don't have a good answer for that. Have you tried Sony? -- SC Tom "ColTom2" <noemailaddress(a)nomail.com> wrote in message news:eXR0m1DnKHA.1544(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi: > > I agree with what you have said, but was just trying to see if there was > a > simple way to accomplish what I asked. > > Thanks, > > ColTom2 > > "SC Tom" <sc(a)tom.net> wrote in message > news:uOQ$Ja9mKHA.4392(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > > > "ColTom2" <noemailaddress(a)nomail.com> wrote in message > news:0F5677CE-4A69-481D-BDE2-DEA1DD83022D(a)microsoft.com... >> Hi: >> >> I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the >> Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3. >> Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB. >> >> I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to >> create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please >> post >> detail instructions. >> >> Thanks, >> >> ColTom2 >> >> > You would probably be better off checking on Sony's support site, or in > the > Sony forums, if there are any. > Even if you are able to, you'll more than likely destroy the data that's > already on the drive. Since you have the recovery DVD, why not just keep > it > in a safe place, and maybe make a copy of it for back-up's sake? It'll > work > just as well as having the recovery on a drive partition. Of course, just > creating a regular drive image to an external drive is the best guarantee > of > saving your data. When the HDD on my notebook crashed, I lost my recovery > partition, but I had a system partition image, so I was back up and > running > in a short period of time. Plus, I didn't have to load any drivers, > service > packs, updates, etc. since it was all there in the image. I wouldn't mourn > the loss of the recovery partition if I were you :-) > -- > SC Tom > > >
From: Bill Sharpe on 23 Jan 2010 12:45 ColTom2 wrote: > Hi: > > I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the > Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3. > Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB. > > I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to > create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please post > detail instructions. > > Thanks, > > ColTom2 > > I have to agree with SC Tom. One of the first things I did when I got my HP desktop four years ago was create Recovery DVD's. Next I deleted the recovery partition. Finally I installed Acronis True Image and backed up my entire C drive to an external hard drive. It's hardly worth it to put the recovery partition back on your main drive, IMO. Bill
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