Drive partitioning and recovery question

My laptop is suffering some performance issues, and general cleanup doesn't seem to be doing much, so I was thinking of going through the recovery to give the laptop a fresh start.
The only thing is currently my DVD drive doesn't seem to be working, so backing stuff up is awkward, to put it mildly.
If I create a new partition of the HDD to store some of the files I want to keep, will the recovery process delete this?  Or does it just get rid of the stuff on the C drive?
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Hi,
Which ever way, you need to backup your files/data to elsewhere, not on the SAME physical HDD.
Good luck.
BH
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