I?m running Win7 Ultimate on a Compaq CQ10-120LA Netbook with 160GB SATA-II HDD, 1GB DDR2-800 RAM and an Intel Atom N270 @1.60GHz. It originally came w/ XP Home but I upgraded :-/ For some reason I cant see the RECOVERY Partition anymore since I upgraded to 7 Ultimate, when I installed it I installed over the XP installation and I was left w/ the Program Files folder for the original XP OS… The issue and my Q: is, I want to create another partition using EASEUS Partition Master Pro to create the partition, the last time I did thid to a friends laptop I wasn?t able to recovery any deleted info from the C:/ partition, both RECUVA and EASEUS Data Recovery would freeze and give no results. Could the same thing happen once I create the new partition, will I lose the ability to recover lost or deleted data from my HDD?? I plan to extract an ISO for XP Pro SP3 onto a 2GB USB Flash Drive, my Netbook does have the option and ability to boot from a USB port… so the installation should go smoothly right??
