If you are looking for a way to do hard disk partitioning on your laptop, this article about how to partition a hard drive on HP Mini 311 using Gparted Windows might be your solution. Many users of HP Mini 311 worry about accidentally delete partition that already exists, such as removing a recovery drive and expect that the rescue will not functioning anymore. Even worse, doing so will get your netbook unable to boot.
First things first. You really should know that the rescue image is already setup when HP install those into your netbook. This image has minimum space, so whole space is not used for the rescue and only a part of it. If you are using rescue, it will look for your E: drive and will refuse to do partition recovery, or wipe the drive before restoring the image.
If you want to partition drive on HP Mini 311 and at the same time making a E: drive, it is safe to not use the rescue image. Even better, you can use a partition software called Gparted to do it for you. It will help you to make a bootable rescue media so you can resize HP mini 311 drive and create extra partition. The best thing about this software, it will not remove anything and you can make a bootable USB thumbdrive and resize or add drive partitions.
You can download Gparted for Windows/Linux here
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