http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Partitioning-Recovery en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:29:07 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13931 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:30:50 +0000 sparky7415 13931@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I have a neat feature from Asus that allows me to check quickly.It fluctuates a lot,and the average was around 35 Celsius.That's with a cheap heat sink fan.Check out Zalman fans,I hear they're the best,and affordable.Cheers my friend.Bye the way,you almost stole that stuff you told me about,good for you. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13928 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:20:47 +0000 whs 13928@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Great CPU and MOBO. How hot does it run because I know the 6000+ runs very hot (and the TL58 in one of my laptops runs hot too). My 4800+ runs at 10 to 35 degrees Celsius, real cool. Run CoreTemp once. I bought mine from HP with 3GB's of RAM and 350GB sata, AND a 22 inch HP monitor included - the whole thing for $480 on black Friday. Normally the monitor alone is over $300. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13924 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:06:44 +0000 sparky7415 13924@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Appreciate your input,I have a few dvd writers and other parts.I basically built this to see if I could.It's a toy to tinker with,I still love my 3 year old,and has never given problems.And I do back up to the external.I new there was something I liked about you.You seem to like AMD, so do I.My cpu is a 5600+ with an Asus MOBO,can't go wrong. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13915 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:47:43 +0000 whs 13915@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Well, essentially your recovery DVD and the installation DVD are the same. But now back to your original question. I would keep the recovery partition around. It should be only about 10GB's and the day you need to reinstall and your DVD reader is on the blink, it may come in handy. All file backups I would make to the external disk. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13914 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:42:02 +0000 sparky7415 13914@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Yes a Microsoft Vista Home Premium OEM full version,and quite expensive.And then I created a recovery disk of all the crap on the new home built.Sorry for the confusion my friend. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13912 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:34:11 +0000 whs 13912@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I am really confused. If you installed Vista with an installation disk, why did you burn a recovery DVD. You have the installation DVD which is the same thing. And if you have an installation DVD, you need no recovery partition - UNLESS your DVD reader breaks down as has happened to me and I had to wait 1 month for a replacement. The whole story is confusing because you did not tell me what you used to install Vista - a Microsoft Vista Installation disk? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13910 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:27:48 +0000 sparky7415 13910@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@whs,I had a raw,brand new everything.I installed win xp pro first.Then I decided to install a full version of win vista home premium.After that I burned dvd recovery disk.And I remember some time back,there was no such thing as a recovery partition.If I'm wrong,please correct me. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13906 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:13:53 +0000 whs 13906@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>You need no recovery partition. The recovery DVD from another PC will be no good though. But how did you install Vista on your selfbuilt PC in the first place? From what source? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13904 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:10:26 +0000 sparky7415 13904@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Since I did burn a recovery disk,why would I need to create a D partition?And I checked out the disk it has more crap on it than I need.And bye the way,I'm not to keen on Norton.Thank you for your input buddy. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13903 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:07:59 +0000 whs 13903@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>So what did your question relate to? I assume your recovery DVD is no good for your home built PC: </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13901 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:01:19 +0000 sparky7415 13901@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I did burn a recovery dvd,something like what I did with the factory machine.And at least I have a full OEM version of Vista. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13898 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:52:20 +0000 whs 13898@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Not sure what you want to do. A recovery partition, usually D:, is a partition on the internal drive (sata) and can be either empty (as with an original MS Vista) to store your file back-ups, or contain a system recovery folder (which in fact is an image of a recovery disk) as provided by the OEM's. If you do not have that, there is nothing from where to burn a recovery DVD. If, however, you want to create recovery images on an external drive, you have to use programs like Norton Ghost (currently release 14) costs $69.99 plus S&#38;H $8.75. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/partitioning-recovery#post-13896 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:42:03 +0000 sparky7415 13896@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi,I recentally built my 1st machine,just to see if I could.Never thought about making a recovery partition like my Compaq/HP,which is still young and very dependable.I did make up a back up DVD disk for the home built.Kind of like the crap these"BIG COMPANIES"are giving us these days.So,do I really need to create a recovery partition? I do have a 250 gig external drive that I also use for back up,more than enough for my needs. </p>