[Small Mike]

Hello,

I bought Advent 9117 like month ago,
I made new partition with files on fat32 with gparted.
Now, I have got Vista (c, Files (D, System (S
and hidden one Recovery.

Now, I wanted to get ride of a Recovery partition and System (S or S: have to stay?

My questions are, if I will do as manual says Full Destructive Recovery, will I lost files from partition D or maybe it will delete this partition?
Becouse there is note: that will delete ALL data on my computer and it will be restored to the factory default settings


After that I wanted to make a recovery DVD, becouse I haven't done it yet. And now system is not "clean".

Next question, what the recovery dvd can do? Same like recovery from hard drive? or only get system the same what I had instaled?

And can I mayby get a normal cd/dvd with windows vista hp? or download? like trial version and put my key from down of laptop? will it works?

Becouse now in system I have written otcher number than, I have got at down of laptop.



Looking foward for anserws

sorry for bad grammar

thank you

[Small Mike]

Anyone?

[Bob Cerelli]

What is on each of those partitions you want to remove?
Are you absolutely certain you won't need it for any future issues?

[DaveA]

What does the OEM say about doing this?
Some time when you make the Recover CD (DVD)s they will NOT alway work. So you need to test them out by rebuilding your system before you MOVE or delete the "Recover Partition".

[Small Mike]

on the S: there is a temp, boot, System Volume Information, $RECYCLE.BIN, bootmgr.
on C: normal vista files programs etc.
on D: my documents which I dont wanna lose





I found something like that will it delete my partition D:?? I don't wanna lose it.
Surely I wanted to use Start Full Destructive Recovery
http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID={4ecfc688-9e8a-4bf0-b511-8ca7f6df2eba}&CatID={55b08cd9-e60b-42dc-9ad6-44bada6e5937}

[Small Mike]

I've just found that it will delete all partition... Only on some toshibas there is option to leave it.


Does normal Windows Vista instaltion doing recovery partition too or no?

Because I guess I could borrow a dvd or cd of vista home premium and instal it with a my licence number. But now I got it branded from The TechGuys. Will it be still legal?


Please anserw me.