Restoring Dell recovery disks while preserving Linux partition

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Published on 2013-06-25T15:25:58Z Indexed on 2013/06/25 16:23 UTC
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I have a Dell laptop dual-booting to Windows 7 and Linux. I have through my own stupidity royally stuffed the Windows partition.

I have the set of recovery DVDs that I created when I first got the laptop, and I've successfully booted from them in a VirtualBox VM and ended up with a fresh (albeit virtualised) installation of Windows 7.

When I started the recovery process, there was mention of other partitions being preserved, but it was unclear as to whether non-NTFS partitions would survive the process.

The question is: can I run the recovery procedure without risking my Linux partition?

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