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‎05-09-2016 02:40 AM

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Product: Pavillion A600N
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit)

So, I upgraded to windows 7 from Vista about May 1/16. Drive D was just about full and I wanted to go to the free upgrade to windows 10. I deleted Drive D, thinking it would just erase any Vista data, but it is just gone. Now what? Can I get it back? Do I need it?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

Thanks!

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‎05-09-2016 07:15 AM

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Hi:

 

Drive D was most likely the Vista recovery partition.

 

Once you upgraded to W7, you probably couldn't use it anyway.

 

So, unless you had planned on going back to windows Vista (if the recovery partition even worked), then deleting it was OK.

 

You can't get it back.

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‎05-09-2016 07:15 AM

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Hi:

 

Drive D was most likely the Vista recovery partition.

 

Once you upgraded to W7, you probably couldn't use it anyway.

 

So, unless you had planned on going back to windows Vista (if the recovery partition even worked), then deleting it was OK.

 

You can't get it back.

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‎05-09-2016 01:06 PM

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Thanks for responding.  I read I can't restore to an earlier point in time now, either, is that correct?

I wondered if doing that  would make it reappear.

Just a wild guess.

Thanks again!

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‎05-09-2016 03:52 PM

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You're very welcome.

 

You can try that, but I think that only pertains to restoring the C:\ drive's files where windows is active.

 

 

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