Paul wrote, On 7/8/2014 2:47 PM:
. . .winston wrote:

Paul, if I may ask...how does that help the op's desire to use the
system restore capability (apparently in reference to the HP created
Recovery Partition) ?

You mean restoring to Factory conditions ? It
will still restore to Factory conditions,
destroying everything in its path. Is that
good enough ?

My machine (the Acer laptop with the replaced OS),
is still prepared for factory restore. Which would
ruin all the work I put into setup of the laptop.
The option is still there, if passing the laptop
on to another person.

The current OS on the Acer laptop, is a Windows 7 SP1
Home Premium DVD (X17-24209.iso) downloaded from DigitalRiver.
And installed using the COA on the laptop. And that takes the
place of the Acer-provided Win7 OS image. If I need to reinstall,
I have two options. Push the "nuclear button" and
do a Factory restore from the 15GB partition which
is still present. Or reach for the Windows 7 SP1 Home
Premium DVD and reinstall and activate that. Pick
your poison. At the current time, the DVD does
less damage.

Paul

It would appear that the op now understands the impact that factory
restore can have (restore everything to what it was) when changing
partition sizes regardless of what one does later with System Reserved,
C: etc.

It also doesn't sound like the op (I'm willing to be corrected if
indicated otherwise) is planning on providing a Win7 DVD of whatever
flavor the Recovery partiton has to whomever receives the repaired unit
("if I'm going to sell it").

I.e. what I or you might do on our own (remove System Reserved, resize,
etc.) might not be of any value if the repaired and sold unit is ever
factory restored in the future.

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...winston
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