Re: Reformatting and Partitions
- From: ByTor <ByTor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 08:45:43 -0400
In article <1123327650.027758.194780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
stuartinengland@xxxxxxxxxxx, Stuart Cowan says...
> My Pc has been come crippled with large amounts of spyware that make
> using the PC more and more diffcult each day. I was planning to
> complete a full system reformat, or system recovery as my manufacturer
> describes it. The PC was shipped with two drive C and D, both being a
> partition of one hard drive. I also added 3 further partitions to D,
> which means there are actually 5 drives.
>
> The computer manual says that when performing a system recovery, you
> can select to just recover the C partition, but it says that a recovery
> will provide an image of the PC's software when shipped, so does this
> mean it will restore the original partitions and lose my current
> partitions?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Stuart
>
>
Stu, my thoughts are exactly as John states.....In the real world of
full retail installs an image of that restored will resize itself to
just fill the allocated space you specify.......In the case of these
proprietary restore CD's they may just wipe out your entire drive
bringing it to the factory state.......
If it gives you an actual option to just restore there than I wouldn't
see a problem with it.....But than again I have a HP that I messed with
once and had 4 OS partitions on it, decided to use the restore CD and it
wiped the "whole" drive.............
The manual seems to clearly state an option, but if I were you I would
back up your data and than give it a go.......Resizing & creating new
partitions after is another whole matter though and needs third party
partitioning software as windows is only able to create partitions in
unallocated space & not manipulate them........John basically covered
this with his explanation.........
Personally, I'd rather own my own copy of an OS than deal with the
proprietary nonsense....But that's me, as I can do what I see fit with
the OS......I wiped out the HP of it's pre-installed OS and put my
own.....Than again if you still have your warranty/tech support
available you have to have the original image installed to recieve
assistance.................Just a thought though.
.
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