On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:36:23 -0500, Paul wrote:

Gordon wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:31:49 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:13:20 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

On 1/13/2013 6:05 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
OTOH, by the time you've made a lot of changes you might not want to go
back to the as-shipped state of your computer, so you really should be
making clone or image backups on a regular and frequent basis so you can
go back to yesterday, or at worst last week. Confessional note: I am not
as good about that as I'm asking you to be :-)
I dunno Gene... I think you did quite well actually. Want to take a shot
for the cure of cancer or the meaning of life or something? Heck, I
think you might be on to something. ;-)
No, I meant I am not as religious about backing up as my advice above
would seem to imply.

I thought my *explanation* was good, but I *am* a bit of an egotist :-)

I am trying to get things set up for a more reliable and regular
back-up process onto external hard drives. I have three Western
Digital 500 MB hard drives inside DYNEX drive boxes and I have been
making copies of the entire Libraries Folder once a week. I keep one
of these external hard drives outside in a storage barn, one inside
near my computer and one in my bank safe box. I make a new back-up
then move that external hard drive to the bank vault and take the bank
vault external hard drive to the storage barn, then brint the one that
has been in the storage barn inside. I let it slowly warm up to room
temperature before removing it from a large coffee can that I keep it
in, then when the time comes I repeat the above process, always
keeping the most recent back-up in my bank safe box. Gordon

Is it possible those Recovery Partitions are being created by
an OS "repair procedure" ? Are you having problems booting
the OS, and after every "repair" attempt, a Recovery Partition
shows up ? Is that what is happening ?

The Recovery Image partition with the drive letter D: assigned was set
up by HP and I can not modify it, or remove the drive letter. I am
guessing it has some waranty information in it that they don't want me
to mess with.

The original partition is labeled;
OS (C 910.34 GB Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump Primary
Partition)

There are two more partitions that have been set up automatically
since I bought this computer in early November. These are labeled;
Healthy (Recovery Partition) 1023 MB
Healthy (EFI System Partition) 360 MB
Neither of these have a drive letter assigned

If that were the case, there might be something slightly wrong
with the boot files on C:, and the repair process is copying
new boot files to a separate partition it creates. Chances
are, it'll have to stop creating new partitions, when it runs
out of Primary Partition entries in the MBR. So three of them
is likely the max you'll see. It's going to have to recycle
the ones it already created, if a repair attempt is made
in the future.

Very curious. My Windows 8 exists on a single partition,
with no help from any other partitions.

Paul

As I mentioned before, I'm inclined to think this (C partition was
set up by HP as they pre-installed Windows 8. It probalby contains
some waranty related information that I am not supposed to have access
to or modify in any way. Gordon