Recovery Drive help. I'm trying to clean out my hard drive on an old Compaq XP desktop, it has a recovery drive (D:). Will this drive contain the information for the OS to re-install upon wiping out the main (C:) hard drive?. I'm trying to clean out my hard...

are useless since my DVD drive is broken. Is there a way to create a recovery drive that I can put the boot files on and also have it possibly boot straight into the ghost program, and then tell it to load the ghost image from the recovery partition to the...

Installing applications from HP recovery drive. Recently, I got a new dv6000t. When i booted it first time, it said windows was not installed correctly and asked for a reboot - and when i rebooted, it said the same thing. This was in an infinite loop. So, i...

Recovery Drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware () Hey everybody, I just got my PC last week and I am trying to create a recovery disc, but every time I attempt to do it, it says that I have too much stuff on the recovery drive....

if not in raw transfer speed, than perhaps with file properties and general folder access speeds? Topic 2: Recovery on a drive failure I haven't had any problems with this unit (yet) but up until now, I had assumed that if a drive fails in RAID1 set...

system files) on the Recovery Drive, I found the proper executable that launches the application. I tried a Destructive Recovery, which means it formats the drive first then installs. However, it had many errors... not being able to extract lots of files....

was done to use SATA2, NCQ, and Intel's ICH10R capability of setting up the RAID-5 across the 5 drives. The drive was segmented into 100GB for OS and the remainder, close to 1.8TB, for storage. Intel Matrix Storage Manager 8.5 picked up the drive array,...

a diskette. During the recovery process the >recovery software will prompt you for a restore location, if at all > possible you should restore to a different drive or even diskettes if > possible, restoring on the recovery drive is not a good idea....

to Vista Home Premium (64bit), but I noticed that the d: "recovery" drive still remains. Me: I never intend going back to Vista, therefore do I even need that Recovery "drive"? Support: Yes Support: We need the recovery drive. Support:...

divided into two partitions a C drive and a D Recovery drive. THe Recovery drive was 10GB and I wanted more space for my main drive so I shrunk the recovery drive by about 5GBs but now I can't expand the C drive to use that 5GB which is currently useless....