My computer is very slow I want to reboot it from the start

wtfury

Snowflake22

On my system the recovery drive is the D: drive. Yes, it is located in My Computer. If you will just right click on the D: and go to Properites it'll show you how much space this partition takes up. Mine uses 12gb.
Now how much of the partition that fits onto one cd actually depends on the cd you are using. Read the label for the cd to see how much it will hold, and make sure it's not a re-writable cd.
Once you start making the recovery cd it will automatically come up and tell you when the cd is full and when it insert the next one. Make sure you write on the cd "recovery cd" and the number; ie, "recovery cd #1, #2, etc, etc.

snowflake22

Why does your D drive use up 12GBs? Is that the total amount of space available or is the 12GB what is being used. If the 12GB is how much space is being used up in the D drive than what is the total available space for the D drive for the computer you use.
Why did you say not to use a re-writable CD? How do you find the next place you need to go to to continue to burn more of the partition drive to a CD? How come D drive doesn't say it's the partition recovery drive or info?
Does your computer show disk cleanup in the D drive? If so what is that for. Does your computer say under D drive FAT32 and if so what is that for?
I still don't know how one can burn the partition info to a CD or DVD. Do you burn it the same way you would burn pictures to a CD or DVD?

ScottGem

Recovery partitions are generally sized to meet the needs of the recovery data. Some mfgs add a cushion so that there is wasted space. Others figure the partition size more precisely. It really doesn't matter and you do not want to fool around with the recovery partition.

Why would you need a rewriteable CD for a recovery disk? You aren't going to change anything, you are going to burn the disks once and that's it.

Most PCs include a way to make the Recovery disks. Its usually not as simple as buring the files to disk.

snowflake22

Why would a company want to have wasted space for a partition and what do you mean by wasted space?

Now I see why a rewriteable CD isn't needed to burn info from the recovery disk.

Where would one go to see how to make CDs of the partition info? Why is it not as simple as burning the files to a disk?

ScottGem

Why I don't know. But it happens. For example the Recovery partition on HP Vista laptops is 8g and is about 90% filled. On Gateway Vista laptops it was 10G and only 70% filled. Since you don't use that space for anything else its wasted.

Different mfgs have different procedures for making a recovery CD. The CD has to be bootable for instance, that's part of why its not as simple as just burning the files.

snowflake22

Do you own a HP Vista laptop and a Gateway Vista laptop? If so why do you have two laptops? I didn't know HP made computers. Does the D drive actually say how much percent is being used in it? I did see a pie chart when I went to D drive and properties?

What do you mean by the CD has to be bootable? I know when I have put pictures on a CD before and wanted to view the pictures on the CD using the computer it gave me choices as to how I wanted to view the pictures. I mean the program I wanted to use to view the pictures on the CD from the CD-Rom slot. Is what I am saying a form of a CD being bootable and if I am wrong on this it is ok.

ScottGem

No I don't own either laptops, but you can go into any retail store and check out the display models, which is what I did.

I forget whether I saw a screen that listed the pct or whether I just did the math.

For something to be bootable, it means that the system can be started from that drive. A Recovery CD has to be bootable since it might be needed due to a system crash. And no, what you describe is not bootable.

Stratmando

My Sony has a hidden partition, You hit a button on start up. Brings it back to Original.
You lose all Programs and Data.