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| | Re: Would creating recovery disc disable recovery partition On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:27:33 -0400, Rick Rogers wrote: Quote: > Hi, > > Not in most proprietary systems. Creation of the recovery disk set has no > effect on the recovery partition other than allowing the user to remove it > afterward if they like. explicit error message... I have a Sony and an HP, but I forgot which one said that. I only tried it on one, so the other might do the same. Or not. -- Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom |
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| | Re: Would creating recovery disc disable recovery partition "Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23w8F%23tO6JHA.4892@xxxxxx Quote: > Hi Gene, > > HP systems only allow for the creation of a single set of recovery disks > (though there is a method to unlock and redo it if necessary), however > this has no bearing on the recovery partition. The latter can still be > used for reinstalling to factory state after creation of the disks. The > disks are used in the event of a hard drive failure. > > -- > Best of Luck, > > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP Just in case I need to (or feel the need to<g>) create another set of recovery disks, where might I find the "method to unlock and redo"? Thanks. Geo. Salisbury Long Valley, NJ |
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| | Re: Would creating recovery disc disable recovery partition On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:17:05 -0400, Rick Rogers wrote: Quote: > Hi Gene, > > HP systems only allow for the creation of a single set of recovery disks > (though there is a method to unlock and redo it if necessary), however this > has no bearing on the recovery partition. The latter can still be used for > reinstalling to factory state after creation of the disks. The disks are > used in the event of a hard drive failure. the DVD set...It never crossed my mind that the recovery partition would be disabled after making backup discs, and in fact I have since booted to both partitions a time or two just for fun (out of curiosity & for verifying its availability). Besides, I think it would be crazy of the mfr to disable the partition after backing it up. What if the B/U failed? In fact, what if my drive dies and then I find out the B/U is no good? I'd learn how nice the mfr is, I guess. On my HP, when I got it, the recovery partition was shown as D:. I went to Disk Management pretty quickly and turned off the drive letter (in order to help keep me out of trouble). BTW, Acronis 9 changed the recovery partition from invisible to D: on my other machine. I had some trouble fixing that, and I no longer have Acronis on my machines. I thought of making a disk copy of the DVD set, but after taking my pulse I decided I wasn't paranoid enough to need to do that. That's probably easier...or else harder...than searching for an unlocker (but that's a good idea, Mark!). My main reason for making the DVD set was in case of HD failure, but, among other anecdotes, I just read a post a few minutes ago by someone who erased his recovery partition, mostly as a result of a set of complicated transactions - odd behavior of software - that misled him into that action (I have lost track of the post - it's somewhere in another NG, I think...). Even I could accomplish something like that :-) -- Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom |
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