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Hey all. I have version 8 and 9 on two seperate xp home edition machines at home. I bought my daughter a dell laptop and also purchased the ATI Home 2012 software. First her laptop is a 64 bit computer. When I downloaded the 2012 version, I placed in the x86 program files. Does this matter at all? Anyway, I've got a usb external harddrive that I wanted to place the backup on. The laptop and acronis recognized it as E:\ which was fine. I proceeded to back it up and created an image, then mounted the image. Here's where I'm confused. It gives me two options: F which is a recovery partition (I didn't know I created the partition) and G which is the operation system. I think I saw somewhere where you can elect to uncheck the recovery partition option, but acronis advises against it. Do I really need the F partition? When it comes time to reinstall the system, should I check both options or just c dr? Also do you still use the bootable media to boot into the program like in version 8 and 9?

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You didn't create that recovery partition. It was created by Dell, and is normal on their laptops.

If you want the simplest, most comprehensive and risk-free backup solution, make full disk backups (selecting the disk, which therefore includes all partitions). When you need to restore, restore the entire disk, again including all partitions.

That's what I needed to know. I kind of thought that windows 7 needed the partition or created it but wasn't sure. Now I know it's Dell. Does the recovery partition contain the mbr?

The laptop probably has three partitions: the OS partition; recovery partition; and a small diagnostic partition.

On my new Dell laptop, the recovery partition was about 20 GB and was actually the booting partition, while the diagnostic partition was about 100 MB. I moved the boot files to the OS partition, made it Active (bootable), and deleted the recovery partition to free up 20 GB of usable space.

That's what I'd do if it was my laptop, but it's my daughters and she probably don't care.