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Added Drive Letter to Recovery Partition, Then Removed... Now Broken
I have two virtually identical Dell laptops running Windows Home Premium.
On one of them I wanted to see what was in the hidden RECOVERY partition so I fired up Disk Manager and added a drive letter. Nothing in the partition made sense to me so I removed the drive letter.
However, windows no longer recognizes the RECOVERY partition. If I run standard windows "Create System Repair Disc", I get an error message "The parameter is incorrect 0x80070057".
The Dell DataSafe program also says it cannot find the RECOVERY partition.
a) Is there some kind of attribute that got changed when I assigned the drive letter and then removed it? If yes, how can I set it back?
b) The laptops are virtually identical. Can I use a recovery disk from one on the other? I'm particularly interested in keeping MS Office 2010 Starter edition intact when I upgrade to Win 7 Pro.
TIA