Disk Partition

[SubhroPaul]

I brought a HP laptop today with 1 TB hard disk. It has 915 GB space in C: and 15 GB space in D:(Recovery). My question is if i create partition on C: and allocate 400 GB, and allocate 500 GB to another newly created drive, will Recovery work if I format my laptop after a year or so? Some one toled me recovery might not work if i create partion on C: and might throw error. Just need to check exparts opinion.

Thanks for your help.

[pritam2015 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

              Go ahead and create partitions of drive C. HP Recovery will not create any error during recovery. Recovery drive will detect the Windows installation directory automatically and delete the windows installation drive only, other drives won't be affected by HP recovery.

              In short, there is no risk at all.

[CherylG]

@SubhroPaul

Usually changing partitions on the hdd does indeed break Recovery  function using the recovery partition. If you are going to partition the hdd make your Recovery Media first. You can boot from them even when recovery using the D partition fails. Of course it usually wipes out any added partitions and restores back to factory setup- in my experiences.

If you haven't done so- Open HP Recovery Manager and use it to make Recovery Media before you make any changes to your hdd!

[Photoray002]

Ill second what Cheryl said. F11 functionality can break when you mess around with the drive like this.

Creating your HP USB Recovery drive before you do anything will be the smartest move you make. If you have to use it to restore the HDD, it will remove everything on the drive and return it to factory settings.

If you want to add a 2nd partition for storage and reinstall Windows without removing the storage partition later, you could either...

1. Use the Microsoft Media Creation Tool for Windows 10, then install the drivers from HP afterward.
2. Create an image backup of the altered configuration with a program like Aomei Backupper or Macrium Reflect. This will require a USB flash drive and an external HDD for a full backup.