Dell Computer Recovery Partition

I bought two of these for two different older Win10 computers with spinning hard drives that were degrading, making the computers very slow. First was my wife's nearly 9 year old laptop. First attempt at cloning drive failed because the computer shut itself off during the process. Be sure to go into power settings and disable automatic shutdown or sleep mode. Once I did that the cloning succeeded. Second PC was a desktop with a 250GB spinning drive. The SSD is 1 TB. Using the cloning wizard, it wanted to create a 217 GB Windows partition (same size as it was on the spinning drive) and it wanted to blow up the recovery partition to well over 700 GB. Well, that's stupid! It should have kept the recovery partition the same size and increased the Windows partition as much as possible. So I halted the cloning and restarted it in manual mode, which allows changing the partition sizes. In manual mode the cloning software made the correct suggestion: it kept the recovery partition and two small mysterious partitions the same sizes that they were on the hard drive, and it increased the Windows partition to 871 GB. So I accepted those sizes and did the cloning. Why couldn't the wizard have figured that out? Bottom line - pay attention during the cloning process to make sure the wizard isn't doing something dumb. Both computers are now running much faster than before. My wife is delighted with her new laptop. She says it is now super-fast. B&H sale price was great with free two day delivery.

Upgraded a Dell computer with this; worked well

bought a dell windows 10 computer with 4 g memory. the thing couldn't do anything not enough memory. Dell wanted way too much to upgrade the memory so i looked up the stats and i ordered this. The computer now functions great. So i added 4 x the memory and i still have the option of installing the 4 g in addition to the 16 but i don't really need it since the 16 is now pleanty to run the system for my needs.

Dell is reliable, and the Optiplex 7020 gives me what I need in a desktop computer.

8GB SDRAM is much better than 4GB in my DELL desktop computer.

This couldn't be easier to use. Plug it in, and your are ready to go. I'm not a computer person, and I bought this to backup my computer. I was able to partition the drive, schedule and start my backup in about 5 minutes. This is a great buy for this much storage.

Needed to create a recovery drive for the new computer. It was going to take 10.68GB. Verbatim is a trusted brand; and this was a good price, so I bought three.

I like how the drive could be partition

Comes with recovery software too.

This is a life saver for me considering the my wireless card went out on my Dell computer during COVID situation.