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Guest
Dear community,
I collected my new laptop a couple of days ago and was surprised it came
with no OS disk. It has 64bit Business vista.
After setting it up, I used the feature to create a recovery "disk", which I
have written on an external (portable HD).
Is there also a partition on my "Mother" HD because the 80gb drive seems to
only have only 66.5 gb useable space. Therefore, what's with the recovery
disk, if the hard drive has a "copy" of vista on it???
Please forgive me, but in the old days with XP, I'd reformat and re-install
the windows every year......if I want to do this in vista should I use the
Portable HD files or the partitoned part of the HD???
Also, now I've added software and settings, should I delete the portable
version and save a fresh one?
Thanks (vista newbie......)
T_D
I collected my new laptop a couple of days ago and was surprised it came
with no OS disk. It has 64bit Business vista.
After setting it up, I used the feature to create a recovery "disk", which I
have written on an external (portable HD).
Is there also a partition on my "Mother" HD because the 80gb drive seems to
only have only 66.5 gb useable space. Therefore, what's with the recovery
disk, if the hard drive has a "copy" of vista on it???
Please forgive me, but in the old days with XP, I'd reformat and re-install
the windows every year......if I want to do this in vista should I use the
Portable HD files or the partitoned part of the HD???
Also, now I've added software and settings, should I delete the portable
version and save a fresh one?
Thanks (vista newbie......)
T_D