Oct 24

What is my Recovery Hard Drive?

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Chris H asked:


Is it a second Hard Drive in my computer or a Partition in my main

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Posted in Desktops by admin @ 5:09 pm | | Comments (4)

4 Responses to “What is my Recovery Hard Drive?”

  1. yap_jp says:
    October 24, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Normally it’s in different partition. It could be visible or invisible. You can see it by going to Start – Run, type compmgmt.msc – Disk Management

  2. Hermann E says:
    October 26, 2008 at 2:17 am

    Some manufacturers have a separate partition on your HDD for recovery reasons.Have you ever looked what you have in drive -lets say D or E? Yes C is normal.
    Do you have D or E ?

  3. the_dreaming_fool says:
    October 26, 2008 at 10:35 am

    Usually, there’s a recovery partition on a single physical drive. It is possible to have a secondary physical drive, but this is highly unusual, since it usually costs more and is found mainly on high end computers/servers.

    If you re-allocate your hard drive from scratch and deleted your partitions, then you could erase your recovery partition. Usually the computer would start booting, and go through a brief mode that would allow you to restore your operating system. it then reads from the partition (which is usually invisible to windows once it’s booting) and re-loads windows to it’s out of factory state.

  4. Tombo says:
    October 28, 2008 at 5:49 am

    The only way to remove it to get disk with them already on without using the disk comes with them.
    The drivers as the drivers as the only way to put clean operating system the only way to remove it to put clean operating system the drivers as.