Recovery partition: is this Dell or Windows 7?

It is a healthy GB 10,89 (System, active, primary Partition). No drive letter. No file system not listed in management of the disks, but Easeus Partition Master identifies as NTFS with 6.7 GB used.

Is there a Windows 7 partition or partition of Dell. Dell DataSafe local backup cannot detect what he calls "The recovery Partition" because I cloned the original of this drive, so if it's Dell, I don't need and that it will try to remove it.

Any help figure this out will be appreciated!

Rob

There is a much easier method to transfer the initialization routines for the Patition of recovery Dell to the operating system Partition. First of all, I will explain why I wanted to get rid of the recovery Partiion.

I have a new Dell XPS, delivered with a small hard drive (did not more great disc because they are much cheaper online independently). First of all, I have everything are saved on a USB drive external using Paragon & Recovery Suite 10 and restored to full disk / partition images for the new hard drive. The new hard drive was big I wanted to do 3 separate partitions - 1 for the operating system and the program files and the other 2 for data files. Unfortunately the Dell pre-loaded count utility and recovery Partitions to the limit of 4 scores per disc so I had 2 leave available are I was to keep the two partitions of Dell. After first verifying the Dell recovery Partition was stored outside and duplicate, I then deleted the partion via Paragon but quickly found computer wouldn't boot. Course of restoration the recovery via Paragon Partition has not fixed the problem, I think because I did not take the extra step to mark the non deleted partition 'Active'. Then, I started from the Paragon recovery CD and restored the recovery Partition from a backup on external USB disk. Started computer then fine. This may seem a bit messy but I was on a "learning curve" and the whole of the restoration of a work boot partition process took less than 30 minutes.

I still need to get rid of the recovery Partition, not because of problems of space, but due to the limit of the partition of 4 described above. As I did it was simple and required no all downloads, burning a cd of BING or the use of Regedit. BTW, I use Windows 7 64-bit edition but I understand the process for 32 bit ver of Win 7 and Win Vista is very similar:

From the Start button, type "Command" in the search screen and click on the command line option to display a screen to type BACK.

The type of command prompt resulting: Bcdboot c:\windows /s c:

In example above, assuming that the operating system partition is drive c: and the startup routines are located in the default location (C:\Windows) it is assumed user requires the c: drive to become hance bootable "c:" after the "/ s". Syntax help is available by typing: Bcdboot /?

Next step is to use the disk management utility to mark the partition (set at the factory to C: on my new Dell) operating system to 'Assets', which will also mark the recovery Partition Dell as "inactive". Disk management can be invoked in Win7 via control panel - system and safety - administrative tools - computer management - disk management or (shorter) using the Start button and type DISKMGMT. MSC in the search line.

After changing the partition active, check that the computer will boot successfully with the Dell recovery Partition inactive. The unwanted recovery partition can then be removed. The entire process using Bcdboot and disk management only took about 5 minutes.

As a general comment, I think that the Dell recovery Partition is really useful only during the first months of the use of a new computer because its use is very destructive of the data changes and the user, at least for those who have not created an extra partition to separate the data files of the operating system. Indeed, it performs a "factory reset" on the computer, so anyone using this recovery option months or years "down the line" will then spend many hours re-installing software, download patches and recover files of data which is held on the OS partition. Much better, imo, to run backups of normal on an external disk partition and the restoration of their share. A tip I could offer in this regard is to keep the old hard disks when upgrading disk or replacement of a pc and buy a box of cheap discs (aka disc cart) to mount the old hdd as a USB stick, perfect for storage of backups and should be detached from the computer after backup has run (and preferably stored in another room (, ideally in another building). In this way, it is relatively quick and easy to recover from a failed hard drive or corrupt the OS. There are a number of backup programs relatively inexpensive which generate full disk / partition including 2 images I used - Paragon and Acronis. Any backup program you choose, make sure you create a "recovery CD" so that the system can be launched and the backup software went without an operating system.

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