I was looking at the partitions and it seems 5 gigs is occupied by the recovery partition. I want to make an image of this, save it elsewhere and put it on an bootable USB key if needed. Has anyone tried booting from USB on the stream 7?
UPDATE:
I created a bootable USB of the recovery partition using recoverydrive.exe from the Run command. I then made a .ISO file of the USB drive using PowerISO and stored it safely on some backup drives. To boot from USB on the HP Stream 7, hold Volume Down while pressing the power button. The bios and boot options will appear.
NOTE: Although I have not actually recovered my OS from this image file, I am confident enough that it will work to erase my recovery partition and free up some space. If you choose to do the same, do so AT YOUR OWN RISK.
UPDATE 2:
It seems deleting the recovery partition breaks the boot. On the bright side, I was able to use my USB recovery image to factory restore AFTER I had deleted the recovery partition.
UPDATE:
I created a bootable USB of the recovery partition using recoverydrive.exe from the Run command. I then made a .ISO file of the USB drive using PowerISO and stored it safely on some backup drives. To boot from USB on the HP Stream 7, hold Volume Down while pressing the power button. The bios and boot options will appear.
NOTE: Although I have not actually recovered my OS from this image file, I am confident enough that it will work to erase my recovery partition and free up some space. If you choose to do the same, do so AT YOUR OWN RISK.
UPDATE 2:
It seems deleting the recovery partition breaks the boot. On the bright side, I was able to use my USB recovery image to factory restore AFTER I had deleted the recovery partition.
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