Undo system recovery

[dashsnow2292]

Hello,

I decided to do a system recovery for my laptop. I've already done a couple of experiments before and from what I remember the first time I done a system recovery, the partition where my personal files where saved did not get deleted. The only thing that was "system recovered" was the partition where the OS was located. Yesterday, I again decided to do a recovery but this time, the partition where I have my files got deleted and the space it had "returned" to the OS partition. Orignally, I shrunk the OS partition so that I can have space for my partition for my personal files.

If it helps, I've done a "system recovery" but saw one of it has a "mini system recovery" option. What is the difference?

I'm using windows 7 and an HP Pavilion Laptop.

 

[nhasian]

usually they have two recovery options, one simply reinstalls windows and saves your documents. the other one wipes the drive and restores the computer to the state it was when you first received it from the factory.