I don't think you'll loose anything by trying, other than, maybe, wasting your time. I done three PCs, two from Dell and one from eMachine, and in all three occasions the reformatting did not bring back the recovery partition.
I don't like using the recovery partition because if you had your PC for a while, using the recovery partition will install old applications and drivers, then it takes a while to update everything again. Not to mention the ton of garbage that’s install as well and which you need to remove. You were wise in creating the two DVDs, though. |