Viewing Recovery Partition

[PSRumbagh]

My Compaq Presario's 40 GB internal hard drive is partitioned into the main
C: drive (34 GB) with NTFS file system and a 6 GB Recovery partition (D
which is FAT32. Windows XP Home SP3 won't let me look into the D: partition
for safety reasons and only produces a warning message. How can I get WinXP
to view the details of the D: partition? If impossible, what Explorer type
program could I use?

I have a complete set of CD backups for the D: partition. What is involved
in converting the 6 GB D: partition into an extra 6 GB of NTFS file space for
data storage? Would I have to Reformat the entire 40 GB drive thus loosing
all programs and data on the present 34 GB C: partition?

 

[Pegasus]

See below.

My Compaq Presario's 40 GB internal hard drive is partitioned into the
main
C: drive (34 GB) with NTFS file system and a 6 GB Recovery partition (D
which is FAT32. Windows XP Home SP3 won't let me look into the D:
partition
for safety reasons and only produces a warning message.

*** What warning message?

How can I get WinXP to view the details of the D: partition? If
impossible,
what Explorer type program could I use?

*** Depends on the warning message.

I have a complete set of CD backups for the D: partition. What is
involved
in converting the 6 GB D: partition into an extra 6 GB of NTFS file space
for
data storage? Would I have to Reformat the entire 40 GB drive thus
loosing
all programs and data on the present 34 GB C: partition?

*** You may have to delete the partition used by drive D:, then format it.

 

[Rich Barry]

The Recovery Partition probably has a Image of your Operating System
as it was when first purchased. If you backed up the D: drive with a set of
CD's and had to use them to
restore your operating system they may or may not work. Drives are
cheap enough today. If you would like to format the D: just rt click the
Icon and choose format>NTFS.
You will not lose anything on your C: partition.

 

[db]

now a days, the recovery
partition is hidden and
doesn’t have a drive letter.

also, 40 gigs is pretty small
for a hard drive these days
so acquiring 6 more gigs won't
do you much good in the long
run.

though it is tempting, I wouldn't
delete those 6 gig's and reformat
it to ntfs.

compaq's are funny machines
and I wouldn’t be surprised that
if you deleted that partition your
compaq will become a comcrap.

consider this, you may have a
backup, but do you have a method
to restore the backup it in the event
you loose total access to your disk?

on the other hand, because you have
that restore partition you can restore
your computer to its original factory
state.

then via that restored o.s. you can
then updated your system with your
backups.
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