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Burning a recovery partition to a disc

  • 19-09-2010 12:46pm
    #1
    Digitalism
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭


    Hey, is there a way to burn the recovery partition of my laptop to a disc or something so I can free up that hard drive space?

    I've got a old iqon laptop running xp home, and I didn't get the OS disc with it when I got the laptop. So when I want to reinstall windows, I have to press R and go through some menus. Any ideas? Thanks.


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  • #2
    hearny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭hearny


    Not that I know of. Iqon drivers etc. can be very difficult to find too so it can be a nightmare if you remove the partition.

    You could use ccleaner to try to free up space.

    You could also replace the hard drive with a larger one using cloning software to transfer the whole drive onto the new one while expanding the partition the OS is installed on


  • #3
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    You could also use Acronis True Image Home to image your system to an external drive.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #4
    spider guardian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 884 ✭✭✭spider guardian


    this may be a bit technical but if you can save all the .SWM files in your recovery partition then you will be able to use imagex to deploy the recovery image onto your system partition. this isn't very user friendly though, you will need to have a Vista/7 OEM DVD. You will probably need to mark the system parition as active using diskpart and use fixboot to rebuild the boot sector.

    Also, you may not be able to access the recovery partition from windows. in that case use a linux live cd.


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