Generally when someone deletes a partition and format the drive...depending
on how they do it the partition data is either still there or it's been
overwritten. There's no real way of telling unless you knew on what sectors
the original partition existed on and could recreate a new table..but you
run the risk of if it sat at the beginning of the drive, the repartitioning
has already overwritten it.
If you burned the CD's, you're fine. Honestly...I don't see where a
tech-savvy person needs it. The recovery just restores your system to
factory-new like conditions....If you know how to install windows and can
obtain all the drivers you need (which i've yet to find a laptop manf that
didn't have drivers for download) then, there's really no reason to use
recovery..you're getting a better install of windows doing something fresh
rather than dealing with the OEM installed stuff....
"Altiar" <Altiar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1A473FF2-5302-469C-B07A-381248B6E4AE@microsoft.com...
>A friend of mine formatted my laptop (Toshiba Satellite-windows vista
> premium) and he deleted my 1.5GB recovery partition....
> is there any way to retrieve this partition???
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