Backup & Restore, drive partition

[BobT]

Dell PC with Windows Vista Home Premium

I've been using the Backup & Restore feature on my PC for a while now. I have been backing up my files to a CD. When I configured my backup I was given a choice of potential locations and one of them was a D:\ partition. Is there any advantage to backing up to this drive location?

Because the D:\ drive is located on the same physical drive as my C:\, would it not be just as vulnerable to a hard drive crash or virus attack?

What is the purpose of the D:\ partition anyway? Dell named it RECOVERY and it seems to contain a system backup. Home Premium does not support complete system backups using Backup & Restore so I'm not sure of the purpose or advantage of this partition, especially after nearly four years of use.

[upnorth]

Bob you don't want to bu to the recovery partition. That is there to store the needed files to reload/restore th pc to its original factory setting. CD, DVD, USB type of thing would be better.

[BobT]

Ok. Thanks.