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by: shamrock838 May 27, 2012 3:30 PM PDT

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What Is Dell Drive E "Recovery" Used For?

by shamrock838 - 5/27/12 3:30 PM

I have a Dell Vostro 420 Desktop computer (circa 2006) with the following hard drive configuration:
Drive C - Vista Business 32 Operating System (Service Pack 2). Used for system and program files, etc.
Drive D - "Datapart1". Used for created files
Drive E - "Recovery". Have never used this and wouldn't know how or why I would do so.
Drive O - External drive added for supplemental storage, etc.

Here are the current usage statistics as of today.

Drive Capacity Used Space Free Space Comments
C 59.9 GB 59.5 GB 467 MB Free Space is L-O-W as MB, not GB.
D 395.0 GB 208.0 GB 187.00 GB
E 9.99 GB 7.87 GB 5.12 GB This drive never used.
O 931.0 GB 132. GB 798.00 GB External HD

For backup purposes I subscribe online to Carbonite Home Plus.

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Recovery Partition

by Dell_Anish - 6/19/12 1:39 PM

In Reply to: What Is Dell Drive E "Recovery" Used For? by shamrock838

Hello shamrock838,

The Recovery E as pointed out by Bob has the recovery partition in it.

This is useed to Restore the computer back to the factory settings when you need it.

I would suggest you not to use the Recovery "E" as it will be useful for you in the future.

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by bob b - 5/28/12 4:51 AM

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I think that's where Dell puts their Factory Restore feature and/or the Dell diags.

Get out your manual and I think you'll find it's some F key during boot that will allow access.


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DRIVE E

by shamrock838 - 5/28/12 9:57 AM

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This seems to make sense in retrospect, given the setting.

Guess I'll have to look elsewhere for additional "C" disk space - which is getting dangerlously low. Ideally, I'd like to "copy" such space from drives "D" and/or "O". Repartitioning?

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