If I Reformat My Hard Drive, Will I Lose The Dell Recovery Partition?
Posted by benny in FreeWare on April 27th, 2009 | 3 responses
I’d like to reformat my hard drive and install XP from scratch. What I’m wondering if that if I reformat from DOS (format c: /s) will this erase the recovery partition as well or leave it on? I’d use their recovery software but don’t want all the crap that comes preinstalled and want to make sure everything is set up as I like it. Any answers would be greatly appreciated.
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3 Responses to “If I Reformat My Hard Drive, Will I Lose The Dell Recovery Partition?”
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no, Dell’s Recovery Partition does not normally have a drive letter associated to it and is thus safe from formats. You will need to go in and delete the partition to get rid of it.
YES – REFORMATTING OR FORMATTING HARD DRIVE ERASES JUST EVERYTHING FROM IT SO MAKE BACK UP OF YR HARD DRIVE BEFORE DOING IT
Ah, formatting spans an entire partition but not other partitions. That “crap” is used to control the hardware systems on your laptop like the power manager, fan, video interface, network interface and plenty more. If you wipe your drive you’ll just bring yourself a boat-load of grief.