[wellylug] Ok to remove Recovery Partition?

[Jethro Carr]

I can't be sure what happens with IBM's, but with my compaq laptop,
there were originally 3 partitions:
15GB Windows
2.5GB Recovery
2.5GB System Restore

After looking on the web, I found that if I was to delete the recovery
partition, the system would just take longer to be reloaded. (4 CD's
instaid of 1). I deleted it and had no problems. :-)

I'll just mention something I found out when I restored it once - my
compaq installer also wipped all my linux partitions, and reverted the
partitions back to the orginal setup. This might not occur on your
thinkpad but be careful, as you never know.



On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 07:27, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Thinkpad, with Windows XP.  I've finished the XP startup, and I used 
> the option to make 7 CDs to recover from, and actually used them to 
> re-install XP.
> 
> Is there something else I should get out of the Recovery Partiton before I 
> remove it?  I noticed IBM mentioned something about "Windows Recovery" right 
> by the link I used to make the 7 CDs mentioned above - is that something 
> separate?
> 
> I'm hanging out to get my 4G of space back, but don't want to paint myself 
> into any corners...
> 
> Regards,
> Bret
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