How To Create Recovery Partition On Hard Drive

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Hi:

I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the
Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3.
Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB.

I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to
create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please post
detail instructions.

Thanks,

ColTom2
 
ColTom2 said:
Hi:

I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the
Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3.
Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB.

I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to
create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please post
detail instructions.

Thanks,

ColTom2
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You would probably be better off checking on Sony's support site, or in the
Sony forums, if there are any.
Even if you are able to, you'll more than likely destroy the data that's
already on the drive. Since you have the recovery DVD, why not just keep it
in a safe place, and maybe make a copy of it for back-up's sake? It'll work
just as well as having the recovery on a drive partition. Of course, just
creating a regular drive image to an external drive is the best guarantee of
saving your data. When the HDD on my notebook crashed, I lost my recovery
partition, but I had a system partition image, so I was back up and running
in a short period of time. Plus, I didn't have to load any drivers, service
packs, updates, etc. since it was all there in the image. I wouldn't mourn
the loss of the recovery partition if I were you :-)
 
Hi:

I agree with what you have said, but was just trying to see if there was a
simple way to accomplish what I asked.

Thanks,

ColTom2



ColTom2 said:
Hi:

I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the
Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3.
Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB.

I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to
create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please post
detail instructions.

Thanks,

ColTom2
Click to expand...
You would probably be better off checking on Sony's support site, or in the
Sony forums, if there are any.
Even if you are able to, you'll more than likely destroy the data that's
already on the drive. Since you have the recovery DVD, why not just keep it
in a safe place, and maybe make a copy of it for back-up's sake? It'll work
just as well as having the recovery on a drive partition. Of course, just
creating a regular drive image to an external drive is the best guarantee of
saving your data. When the HDD on my notebook crashed, I lost my recovery
partition, but I had a system partition image, so I was back up and running
in a short period of time. Plus, I didn't have to load any drivers, service
packs, updates, etc. since it was all there in the image. I wouldn't mourn
the loss of the recovery partition if I were you :-)
 
ColTom2 said:
Hi:

I have somehow in the process of cloning my hard drive wiped out the
Recovery Partition on a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop running XP (MCE2005) SP3.
Hard drive is a Western Digital WDC WD2500BB 250 GB.

I have the Sony Recovery DVD's so is there someway I can use them to
create the Recovery Partition back on the HD? If so, would you please post
detail instructions.

Thanks,

ColTom2
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I have to agree with SC Tom. One of the first things I did when I got my
HP desktop four years ago was create Recovery DVD's. Next I deleted the
recovery partition. Finally I installed Acronis True Image and backed up
my entire C drive to an external hard drive.

It's hardly worth it to put the recovery partition back on your main
drive, IMO.

Bill
 
Having a backup of your data is good practice. At the time of data
recovery process , if u have a back up of your data, then half of the
job is done. I have used the *Stellar phoenix windows data recovery
product* to recover my lost data . Without a valid backup I think it
was not possible.
 
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