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[dkarst]

First of all, thanks to JeanIn Montana I think I'm rid of AV2008 but in putting place a clean restore point, I had a question that J.I.Montana agreed maybe should be posted here.

My computer is an HP with a "recovery partition" E: drive where a system backup is written (dieally right after you buy the computer) in case you need to restore the OS. Both C: and E: are monitored with Windows Restore. I read a somewhere a while back and it seems to make sense to me that the recovery partition should be deselected in the Windows Restore or maybe it doesn't make any difference as there are some special protection on that partition. What is your opinion?

[AdvancedSetup]

Well I see no real reason to monitor it as data is automatically monitored and stored based on the drive, meaning that data from C: won't be placed on E: and vice versa.
The restore is not data that is in constant transition as it is on the C: volume.

What I would recommend though is that you send off for the installation recovery CDs from the vendor. Sooner or later if you hold on to that system the hard drive will fail and that recovery won't work because it's on the same hard drive (just different partition) that will fail. I've now had to do this for 2 systems. The hard drive failed which invalidated doing a recovery. The disk were like $22 and arrived in a few days. Put in a new hard drive and did the recovery back to the way the factory shipped it.