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09-24-2016 05:38 AM
In my previous PC I divided the hard disk in 2 partitions: 1 for the OS and the other for my data, so I could made the recovery of the OS without losing my data. Should I do the same on my HP Notebook? How can I do that? And, if I sucessfully create 2 partitions of the Hard Disk (1 TB), 1 for the OS (windows 10 Home), and the other for my files and data, will I be able to recover the OS? Sorry for the bad english, and thank you.
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09-24-2016 07:36 AM - edited 09-24-2016 07:36 AM
Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
When you look at the drive on this new laptop, you will see that it already has several partitions on it -- because it's most likely formatted GPT, not the MBR formatting you are used to.
That said, you would shrink the OS partition to add a data partition just like you did in the past.
You would need to use a partitioning tool to do this, one of which is this one: Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free
As to being able to then later use the HP Recovery Manager -- probably not. While it might work, one of the first things it does is completely reformat the drive, and that will erase anything you have saved on it -- and it will reformat the drive to match the original settings in the process.
Good Luck
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
09-24-2016 07:36 AM - edited 09-24-2016 07:36 AM
Hello;
Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!
When you look at the drive on this new laptop, you will see that it already has several partitions on it -- because it's most likely formatted GPT, not the MBR formatting you are used to.
That said, you would shrink the OS partition to add a data partition just like you did in the past.
You would need to use a partitioning tool to do this, one of which is this one: Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free
As to being able to then later use the HP Recovery Manager -- probably not. While it might work, one of the first things it does is completely reformat the drive, and that will erase anything you have saved on it -- and it will reformat the drive to match the original settings in the process.
Good Luck
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
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