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Recovery (:D) after upgrading to Win 7


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Hello! I have a Dell 1525 Inspiron Lapton. When I bought it, it came with Vista and had a (D:) recovery drive. However, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 and have the Win 7 Upgrade Disk. If anything goes wrong with my laptop, instead of using the recovery drive, can't I just pop in the disk and do a clean install? Therefore, do I really even need this Recovery partition? I would appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks.
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Therefore, do I really even need this Recovery partition?

Not really, unless you're planning to go back to Vista.
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is it worth using to backup on? or cn i just use a dvd for that
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It's better to back up to some external source.
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well how do you delete the partition without reinstalling the os
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See here: http://www.winvistaclub.com/t11.html
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