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so i ran out of space on the tiny 80 gig hard drive that was in my laptop so i decided it was time to upgrade to something bigger. So i got a new seagate 500 gig hard drive and put it in, then installed windows again but i noticed after installing a couple drivers that there is no recovery drive. why isn’t there one? I am pretty sure i need one but dont know how to get one there! any help would be nice!

Best reply by KateJB:

There is no recovery partition on your new drive because you didn’t make one.

If you have a Windows disc, then you don’t really *need* one. Save your drivers to another disc and you should be okay if you need to reinstall in the future.

Good luck.

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why is there no recovery drive on my new hard drive after i finished installing everything?

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I DONT HAVE A RECOVERY DISK AND I DONT WANT TO LOOSE MY WINDOWS XP.

I only have one partition of my hard drive and all my data including windows is in it.

So please someone tell me how do i format my hard drive without a recovery disk but still keeping my Windows.

Best reply by koammudo9:

you need to call your comp manufacturer for a replacement.
can’t be done without it. you also need to back up your data, all of it .you can make a backup of all your drivers on a dvd disk before formating. otherwise backup the rest of your data to disks or an external hard drive. and you will still need the manufacturers disk..sorry!

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