earwicker7
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As the title says, I'm getting ready to do a clean reinstall of Windows 7. I've optimized my BIOS as much as possible (no overclocking yet, although there probably will be soon) and have backed up all the important information. I've never dealt with partitions before, so I need some advice. I went into the Computer Management part of the Control Panel, and here is what I currently have (it's a RAID setup, if that helps); there are three partitions on what it says is a 931.52 GB hard drive:
39 MB Healthy (OEM Partition)
RECOVERY 8.51 GB NTFS Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
(C 922.96 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
So, should I keep things this way, or are there better ways to have it set up? I'm pretty good about backing up my files to a flash drive, so I don't really see the need for a Recovery partition... is this unwise?
39 MB Healthy (OEM Partition)
RECOVERY 8.51 GB NTFS Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
(C 922.96 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
So, should I keep things this way, or are there better ways to have it set up? I'm pretty good about backing up my files to a flash drive, so I don't really see the need for a Recovery partition... is this unwise?