I have HP desktop computer with Windows Vista Home Premium and want to Install XP on New Partition.
The Recovery is on Drive D. Can this be change in order to have Vista on C and XP on D
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I asked a similar question here a few hours ago. Since then, I've found that if you open HP's Recovery Manager and click the "Advanced Options" button on the startup screen, it gives you the choice to remove the "Recovery" partition (tagged as Drive D: on my system) and will even walk you through creating recovery disks (CD or DVD) before you delete the hard disk partition so that you can still recover your factory settings if you ever need to.
Hope this helps.
I have the recovery discs and would not need the recovery on Drive D. I check with HP and they would not recomend changing the drive letter. If I every had to use the recovery disc it would automatically install the d recovery back on the disc. I used disc manager to install a new partition named it drive B. Maybe I should just use C for Vista and B for XP
This has got me curious. What exactly is the recovery procedure for these HP systems?
I have an Acer Aspire desktop which has a recovery partition that has no drive letter assigned. The recovery procedure is some weird keyboard combo at boot time, ctrl-F11 or alt-F12 something like that. You hit this while the Acer logo is up and it takes you to a special menu where you can select to restore to factory defaults. If HP uses the same method, what difference does it make what drive letter the OS will assign when you boot up? You are about to wipe out the OS anyway. So, I'm curious.
I did a lookup on the recovery procedure for HP and Compaq PCs with Windows. Here's one page I found:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfr.....=c00814731
This recovery procedure can be done from in Windows, during a power-up by pressing F11 (or F10), or by booting from the recovery discs. No mention of a D: drive, in fact this document says that the partition is hidden.
It seems to me that changing the drive letter of the recovery partition from D: to some other letter, or none at all, still leaves you with 2 recovery options. I don't see what the fuss is with changing that drive letter. Is there some instruction from HP not to change it?
Partition Magic Should Help It's A Nifty Bit Of Software That Partitions Your Hard Drive And Renames it For You And Also Tells You How Much Space You Have Accurately I suggest Using That And Renaming Your D: Drive Something Else With Microsoft Disk Management.
Then Create The Partition With The PM Software.
Careful Though Recovery Space Is There For a Reason.
Partition Magic from Symantec is not Vista compatible and not recommended for use with vista partitions. This program has not been updated since 2004 and probably never will be. See the discussion here at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.....ity_issues
Use Vista's Disk Management for partition operations, including drive letter assignment. For operations that can't be done in Disk Management, use gparted as described in this article by The Geek:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....partition/
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