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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.