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Do I need to backup Recovery Partition?

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I've got Windows 7 Home Premium and ATI 2016. I'm doing a backup through the CD. Do I need to backup the Recovery Partition? It's 19GB. Or can I just backup the C: drive and SYSTEM RESERVED?

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Hello Ned,

The Recovery partition would only be needed if you wanted to do a Factory reset and put your system back to how it was shipped from the manufacturer.  You should be safe to just backup the System Reserved and main C: drive partitions, assuming that you have no other required hidden partitions.  

If you are backing up using the Acronis recovery media on CD/DVD then you should be able to see all partitions, but check how many you can see within Windows 7 using Computer Management / Disk Management (right-click on Computer and select Manage).