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New SSD laptop drive - can I remove recovery partition during restore?

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Reading the various threads, backup and restore is very clear. I would like to not restore the Win 7 13GB laptop recovery partition, since I have it in the backup and want the SSD space.

Advice/Guidance is - Select your backup. When select what to restore, choose one partition after the other, in the same order they were in Windows, do not restore the MBR and track 0. When you do this, ATI will allow you to resize each partition. Do not resize any of them, except your C:\ partition or any partition you created.

It seems obvious, but the question is can I just not choose/add the laptop recovery partition during the restore?

I would end up with the system reserved 100MB, the primary ~200GB partition, then finally restore the MBR, Track 0 and the disk signature. The recovery partition was the first partition in disk management, before system reserved.

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As long as you have a backup with the entire disk image, you have little risk to try not to restore the recovery Partition. When you do this, remember to leave an offset of 1MB before the first system partition.

Excellent, Disk director and even Windows allows deletion of a partition and reallocation of the space, but based on comments here about the exact sequence of restoring an image, didn't want to miss anything.

The process I described is conservative in that it allows recovery of the recovery as well as a backup, still have the old Hd, and maximizing the SSD Mb :)

Thanks!