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Will installing as dual-boot harm my factory restore partition?

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I have a new Toshiba Satellite P740 laptop running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium. At the moment, the machine comes with a secret partition that will restore the computer to its out-of-the-box, factory-fresh state by using a key combination at startup.

If I install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 on this machine, will I still be able to access the secret partition? I'd like to be able to restore the machine this way if I ever need to sell it or something else goes horribly wrong.

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answered 1 Year ago ticrew · Accepted Answer

It will not do any harm to your factory partition and yes, You can restore from this secret partition unless and until you delete that partition in the Installation phase of Ubuntu.

Please, take special care for not to delete that partition by Gparted or "Partition Disk" phase of Ubuntu installation.

I had a partition in My Lenovo 3000 Y410, I installed Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora and many others and Windows XP and 7. It did not delete the partition. Yes, If you deliberately delete that partition (as I did), It will get deleted.

How to identify the secret partition:

Most of the time, The secret partition resides as the First or last partition of the disk. As @izx suggested, You can see that partition in Windows by Clicking on Start button, then type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter. Then select the Disk management in the left bar. Windows does not assign a Drive letter such as C: or D: to this partition. Most probably, Windows can show this partition as Hidden partition or something similar.

Hope this will answer your question.