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New-User = is it Possible to create a Recovery partition or hidden drive on a hard drive?

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Hi,

I read a post on CNET that you can create your own recovery partition like the big companies do; Dell, HP, ect..

I was just wondering if there is any documentation on this or directions. I looked for a previous forums post but did not see any.

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You cannot use this software to create such a partition from scratch, but you can use it to backup an existing one.

This software allows you to do disk imaging and restoration, which is better than using the OEM recovery partition, reinstalling Windows, its updates, your apps, your documents, your settings, etc.

Ok great. I mainly got this because I bought a new Dell Alienware Area 51 and, I did not want to pay inflated price for the SSD they put in it, so I just bought it was the two TB drive. Then I bought top of the line model samsung 850 pro 500GB SSD drive for half the price.

Once the Dell Alienware gets here I am going to create a copy of that new image and clone it over to the SSD drive then make the SSD drive the main drive for the OS and turn the two TB drive into a storage drive.

Dell does not ship media with most of the computers so I didnt want to have to wait another day. I guess its a little bit lazy not to just wait and instead go out and buy 50.00 dollar software but I figure I can use this in the future anytime I want to add or change out a new drive on any of my personal computers. I dont really use it much for back up but its nice it has that feature.

I did the same when I bought a new HP laptop. Bought it with the regular disk and used an older SSD I had to migrate the system. When you receive your new computer, turn it on, set it up, register your copy of Acronis on Acronis.com, download the bootable ISO from there and burn it to a CD or use YUMI to make a bootable USB. Then boot the computer on the recovery CD, and create a "prime" backup of the entire disk. Store this backup for posterity. Then install your programs, including Acronis and go your merry way.