Some questions about recovery partition on laptop.

wayne0308

Hi,

I just bought a 2nd hand laptop this week and it has a recovery partition. I'm well used to installing and reinstalling operating systems on pc's that I've built myself but in that case you have all the drivers you need with all the components. But with this laptop theres no CD's.

My question is that when you burn a recovery CD/DVD (I assume there's an option here to do so) is the information held on it the same as what is contained in this partition? Will a recovery CD/DVD do the same job as the recovery partition?

Thanks a million.

IrishTonyO

With most recovery partitions you do not need a CD at all, the partition is activated by a key sequence while booting up. With most Dells you activate it by pressing Ctrl F11 when the blue bar appears on top of the initial screen as it boots the BIOS. What make and model is the laptop?

wayne0308

Its an acer aspire 5739, if possible I want to get rid of that partition and only use disks for recovery. I seen there's an e-recovery program, I think it will burn and image of my system. If this is what I want I can just use that instead of the partition and free up that space and if I need to revert to its original state I can just use the disk. I know 10GB isn't much to save but every bit helps.

ejmaztec

The recovery disks should be identical to the partition. I've an HP and have gotten rid of the partition, relying instead on the Terabyte range of Image programs (Windows/Dos/Linux).

Recovery is too time-consuming, getting rid of the bloatware, reinstalling all of the updates blah blah blah, etc etc.



https://terabyteunlimited.com/products.htm?PHPSESSID=cec1c180c334d3a7a424cd194c9c7301

IrishTonyO

ALT & F10 is normally the key combination to load recovery on Acer Aspire. You could create recovery disks and delete this hidden partition, however it is far safer to keep it, rather than relying on having a disk etc.