Windows Recovery vs Manufacturer (Toshiba) Recovery

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Cyrax Nguyen

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I'm currently using Toshiba Satellite C55-A5128 Windows 8.1. My OS is getting slowed down so I decided to upgrade to Windows 10. However I'm having plan B, which is to roll back to Windows 8.1 in case if Windows 10 is not for me. I'm worrying that I might lose Toshiba support utilities once I got into Windows 10.

Currently there is a partition for recovery (around 8.33GB) and I'm guessing that Toshiba's.


My question is whether Windows Recovery and Toshiba Factory Recovery is on separate drives so that when I install Windows 10 it's not overriding Toshiba Recovery Partition so I can have a backup options of rolling back to Windows 8.1 Utilities.

 
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It will if you choose to delete the partition that contains the OEM recovery files during the installation. If you don't, it won't. Run disk management in Windows to determine WHICH drive letter is the OEM partition, if it doesn't show up in windows explorer (Which it should), and just make sure during the installation to not choose THAT particular partition for deletion during the installation when you get to the point where it asks you where you want to install windows and you delete all the OTHER partitions.

You can also likely copy the recovery partition to another separate drive if you have a secondary storage drive, whether internal or external, for that purpose in the even you decide to go back. I don't think you'll want to go...
They are exlusive and different. Windows creates a folder name windows.old on the same partition it installs windows to. It will not affect your Toshiba recovery partition unless you do a clean install and delete all the partitions manually during the installation, by intent.
 
It will if you choose to delete the partition that contains the OEM recovery files during the installation. If you don't, it won't. Run disk management in Windows to determine WHICH drive letter is the OEM partition, if it doesn't show up in windows explorer (Which it should), and just make sure during the installation to not choose THAT particular partition for deletion during the installation when you get to the point where it asks you where you want to install windows and you delete all the OTHER partitions.

You can also likely copy the recovery partition to another separate drive if you have a secondary storage drive, whether internal or external, for that purpose in the even you decide to go back. I don't think you'll want to go back though as I've always been pretty skeptical of new Windows releases but this one has been mostly (There's always a few things to be worked out on new operating system releases) trouble free and seems much more responsive than even Windows 8.1 was, especially with a clean install.

 
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For example, as shown below, when you get to where it asks you where you want to install windows (Using the CUSTOM option during the installation, not the Upgrade) you will want to click on the advanced options, then delete everything on the target drive only (Disconnecting all secondary and USB drives is a good idea, unless you're installing from a USB drive in which case of course you need to leave it connected) except whichever partition shows as the recovery partition.

In this example below you would highlight each of the other partitions individually and select delete, then install to the unallocated space, NOT to the recovery partition. Installing to the UNALLOCATED space will allow Windows to create the necessary partition and perform any necessary formatting to the created partition.




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