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After doing a recovery on a HP Pavillion dv6000t notebook, it restored back to factory settings. But it eliminated the system drive (D:) why didn't it create it if its suppose to put it back to factory settings? and besides updating all the files i.e. norton, xp updates, etc, should i partition my C: drive first and create a system folder or do a move from c: to d: after partitioning the c: drive? how do i go about doing that? pls advise. thank you, Carmen

Submitted: 19 days and 4 hours ago.

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I had no choice but to do a recovery, so afterwards i noticed it was faster but my partition system drive wasn't there, so i haven't done anything yet not even updating the files up to date. Until i can figure out if i need to partition and create a system folder

Posted by Ryan H 18 days and 11 hours ago.

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Hi there,

What was the purpose of your D:\ partition before? Did you store files there?

18 days and 2 hours ago.

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It came that way from HP, it had my system_sav files which i believe had my restore/recovery files. It was just that something happened i don't know if it was a virus/worm or whatever, so i had no choice but to do a recovery by restoring back to factory settings cause it wouldn't let me do anything else, i couldn't even go to safe mode, as much as i tried not to do a destructive recovery i had no choice i guess. it was a black screen, i tried the f11/f8 anything to try to get my system to at least go to safe mode but to no avail only choice it gave was to do a complete recovery. afterward i got everything back that came when i first got it from HP, the only difference is that it didn't do a partition D: had my system_sav files. So is it necessary to partition it?and would it take away some memory? cause it looks like if i'm missing some, maybe its cause it looked different when it was partitioned. Anyway, at least i got all the programs it came with and its alot faster too, so before i update all the files i.e. XP, norton, etc so it can be up to date, i need to know if i should partition it first, if so, do i move the system_sav files over afterwards? what exactly would it do to my notebook if i partition it? it won't erase everything right? thanks

Posted by Ryan H 18 days and 2 hours ago.

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If you partition your drive, it will only take some of the space from the main C:\ and create a D:\ this is safe, there is no risk in doing this. You can move any files you want over to this partition. If you partition it will not erase everything if you do it from Windows and not the installaton CD. If you format, then you lose everything.

Your system most likely still has the recovery partition, it is just hidden. (Unless you formatted and deleted it)

It is not necessary to partition it, you can safely update your files.

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where would the recovery (system sav) be at in the c: drive and do i just click to show any hidden files? does partitioning those files help prevent anything from damaging/corrupting it, is that why they did a partition and only had the system_sav files in it? I'm trying to understand why they even bother to partition the drives if its not necessary, other then space issues or to separate the system files from other files, i seem to recall once i had to do that a while back but it was due to the motherboard i think it was it only accepted disk drive space up to a point only, so if it could only handle 4g and you have a 8g you would to split it into 2 drives then it would accept it. maybe i'm wrong, but regardless thanks i await for your final answer to the above question.

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Hi there,

Those files would not be on the C:\ drive, they would be on a hidden partition, that is not showing. I would leave the system just as it is. Another possibility is that it was deleted when you re-installed it, in that case you would have to order recovery disks for your machine if you ever need to restore it again. The reason those files were partitioned is because people are less likely to delete them, and that partition should have been hidden, but it looks like it was visable. At any rate, I would leave the system how it is.

Thanks!

Ryan

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