Notebooks laptop recovery deletes partition?

i just bought a laptop, it only has a 1 drive except the recovery drive. i want to create a partition from c: drive using partition magic. my question is if i use the recovery disc, will it also delete my partition?

thx

 

It's hard to say without knowing the specific recovery disk. The one I use wouldn't, but I've used others in the past that format the whole drive.

Best advice is to back your data up just to be sure.

 

ok, thx

btw, i m using dell 6400 with window vista home premium, any experience with it?

 

Just not use the recovery disk. Use a regular XP cd with the key that's attached to your laptop, and install everything where you want it. My both laptops (Acers) had a recovery cd that would repartition, and create a 1 GB big hidden partition at the start of the drive, for "recovery" purposes...

 

the recovery partition in my laptop isnt hidden, its just like a normal partition, i can access it, but dont think i can modify the files

thx for that suggestion

 

If you use the recovery CD... it almost certainly will format any partitions you've created yourself (my recovery CD's certainly do)

But as Glider suggests... if you don't want to lose your new partitions... just use a standard Windows CD if/when you want/need to format the drive next