Re: Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?

Daddy,

Have another look in Disk Management. The Recovery partition is not the Boot
partition. It is the System partition as it contains the booting files. I
know that doesn't sound correct but that's what Microsoft call it. Win7 is
the Boot partition as it contains the Windows folder.

So if you delete the Recovery partition, Win7 won't boot. You will get this
error..

BOOTMGR is missing
Press Control Alt Delete to restart

That's because you have deleted the booting files that were in the Recovery
partition. The procedure I described earlier is to copy the booting files
from the Recovery partition to the Win7 partition. This will allow Win7 to
boot on its own without needing a second partition containing the booting
files.

Does this make sense? Having booting files outside of the Win7 partition is
going to cause problems for some folks when restoring images to a new HD
(say due to a HD failure) as two partitions will need to be restored to
allow Win7 to boot.


.

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