Windows 7 Clean Install Questions

[cheezmunky]

I just bought a Toshiba P875-S7200 notebook. As you are probably aware, computers come pre-loaded with a bunch of crapware that nobody wants. I created a boot thumb drive and when I boot up there are three partitions listed:

System 0 Partition 1: System
System 0 Partition 2: XXX ( I forget what. This is the main diskspace)
System 0 Partition 3: HDDRecovery

1) I'd like to save the recovery partition to use in the future, but if I re-install using the jump drive will it even be usable?

2) Beyond that, if it is usable, can I delete Partition 1 and install the OS on the combined 1/2 partition, saving Partition 3 for use in the future if needed?

I kinda know what I'm doing, kinda don't, and I don't want to mess it up to where I can't recover anything without a totally clean wipe. Thanks for the help.

 

[Dahak]

Its been a while since ive worked on toshiba but here is some suggestions

!!!1) Create Recovery DVDs first !!!
no matter what you do, created these first, now for your answers

not from what i remember, as the boot information needed is part of the system reserved/windows7 partition depending on where the boot info is.

if you do 2) and only format the main partition where windows it, it may allow you to boot from it, but the f11(or what ever key is recovery)
But from my experiences with hp's it wont work