HP Laptop <D> Recovery?

I have had this HP laptop that came with Vista Home Premium since 04/2007. I
brought Vista Ultimate and upgraded over the top of Vista HP. The <D> still
has the 5gb of disk space for the Restore. I guess it's the HP area to
create a Restore DVD from, in case I needed to reinstall Vista HP. Do I need
that space on <D> or can I wipe it out, because I have a Vista Ultimate
install DVD?

Hi,

Is your copy of Ultimate an upgrade or a full version? If it's an upgrade
and catastrophe happens, you'll need to reinstall the original OS, then the
upgrade. As a full version, you could just clean install. However (there is
a gotcha here), many laptops require proprietary drivers that may not be
found in the retail disks, so a clean install of Ultimate may not go
smoothly. Unless there is a machine-critical need for the 5GB of space, I'd
suggest you leave it as is.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote in message
news:umactk9%23HHA.3548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I have had this HP laptop that came with Vista Home Premium since 04/2007.
>I brought Vista Ultimate and upgraded over the top of Vista HP. The <D>
>still has the 5gb of disk space for the Restore. I guess it's the HP area
>to create a Restore DVD from, in case I needed to reinstall Vista HP. Do I
>need that space on <D> or can I wipe it out, because I have a Vista
>Ultimate install DVD?

If you haven't already done so, create a set of recovery discs. Then if you
really need the space, you can safely remove the recovery partition.

-Paul Randall

"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote in message
news:umactk9%23HHA.3548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I have had this HP laptop that came with Vista Home Premium since 04/2007.
>I brought Vista Ultimate and upgraded over the top of Vista HP. The <D>
>still has the 5gb of disk space for the Restore. I guess it's the HP area
>to create a Restore DVD from, in case I needed to reinstall Vista HP. Do I
>need that space on <D> or can I wipe it out, because I have a Vista
>Ultimate install DVD?