System recovery partition gone or not? Help

Hello, I was told by the seller who sold me my computer that there is a protected recovery partition on my Dell which is used to recover Windows 7 during emergencies. I figure that since I'm backing up the hard drive (using macrium reflect) to protect myself in case of any future hard drive...

My Windows 7 computer came with a 100 MB partition that I believe may include a System Recovery capability. If I boot the Advanced Startup Options using the F8 Key the first item in the list says "Repair Your Computer". However, if I hit Enter I get a screen asking about language but there is...

HDD is failing. I spent the last 16 hours reading the BSOD threads and decided to accept my fate. I can provide details if anyone is interested, but I've decided to replace the HDD. I'm posting here to run my plan by the experts in case it is incredibly stupid and would not work. Problems: ...

Hi During installation of win8 in a multiboot system (win7+win8+ubuntu) I got a little chaos booting my Dell Computer. So now Im not sure which partition has to be the boot one. At the moment is the recovry partition not hidden and named "boot". I guess it hat to be hidden, but which should be the...