Partition Hard-Drive without format?

[seavixen32]

I'm afraid this is rather difficult without offending the thread starter, but you either haven't been understanding what Karl has been telling you or you are choosing to ignore him.

The recovery partition is used to restore your computer to its factory state i.e. exactly how it was when you first bought the computer. If you delete the recovery partition and you haven't got any recovery discs you can't recover to the factory state, which means you would have to buy a set of HP recovery discs or a Windows 7 DVD.

A restore from a system image backup restores your computer to the state it was in at the time you created your backup.

If you decide to keep the HP Recovery and HP Tools partitions you can only increase the number of partitions by creating logical partitions in your C drive.

This tutorial explains how to create a system image backup.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/663-backup-complete-computer-create-image-backup.html

This one shows you how to partition your hard drive.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/93322-partition-wizard-use-bootable-cd.html

ImgBurn is an excellent, free ISO burner.

http://www.imgburn.com/

 

[CloudS]

I'm afraid this is rather difficult without offending the thread starter, but you either haven't been understanding what Karl has been telling you or you are choosing to ignore him.

The recovery partition is used to restore your computer to its factory state i.e. exactly how it was when you first bought the computer. If you delete the recovery partition and you haven't got any recovery discs you can't recover to the factory state, which means you would have to buy a set of HP recovery discs or a Windows 7 DVD.

A restore from a system image backup restores your computer to the state it was in at the time you created your backup.

If you decide to keep the HP Recovery and HP Tools partitions you can only increase the number of partitions by creating logical partitions in your C drive. This tutorial explains how to create a system image backup.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/663-backup-complete-computer-create-image-backup.html

I wasn't intending to ignore him. Since, I am new to all this Win 7 things, it was a little confusing. That's it. I thank Karl for this help and replies he gave.
Actually, I just run out of blank DVD to put by back-up in and that's why looking if I had an alternative.

 

[karlsnooks]

Cloud,
Theoretically one can use DVDs for backup.
Practically this is problematic, costly, and time-consuming.

Best is an external usb drive. For the small amount of data which you have a 200 gb external usb would suffice. You can probaly get even a 500 gm for $50.

 

[seavixen32]

I'm afraid this is rather difficult without offending the thread starter, but you either haven't been understanding what Karl has been telling you or you are choosing to ignore him.

The recovery partition is used to restore your computer to its factory state i.e. exactly how it was when you first bought the computer. If you delete the recovery partition and you haven't got any recovery discs you can't recover to the factory state, which means you would have to buy a set of HP recovery discs or a Windows 7 DVD.

A restore from a system image backup restores your computer to the state it was in at the time you created your backup.

If you decide to keep the HP Recovery and HP Tools partitions you can only increase the number of partitions by creating logical partitions in your C drive. This tutorial explains how to create a system image backup.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/663-backup-complete-computer-create-image-backup.html

I wasn't intending to ignore him. Since, I am new to all this Win 7 things, it was a little confusing. That's it. I thank Karl for this help and replies he gave.
Actually, I just run out of blank DVD to put by back-up in and that's why looking if I had an alternative.

In that case, check my edited comment for the extra links I included for you.

As you have a set of HP recovery discs it means you can recover to the factory state if you needed to.

I would now be inclined to delete the HP Recovery and HP Tools, and then create a new partition using the resultant unallocated space.

Before you create your new partitions, you could reduce the C partition to around 150 GB to give you extra space for your new partitions.

 

[theog]

By partitioning I meant, creating more drives, like Drive E: and Drive I: while keeping the Drive C: for windows only.

Why do you need more partitions?

 

[CloudS]

I answered that before too.
Same reason.

 

[raufjawaid]

Hi, need little help. How should I partition my hard drive without effecting the recovery partition.