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    Acer aspire: Help to delete recovery partition

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by gavi101, Mar 18, 2008.

  1. gavi101

    gavi101 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all
    i have a acer aspire laptop with Vista home basic.

    It has a 80gb hard drive and 9.7gb for a recovery partition.

    I want to delete the reocvery partition as i have recovery disks.

    I used the recovery disk to re-install but it still adds the recovery partition of 9.7gbs to my hard drive.

    How can i delete the recovery partition and is it safe to do so ????
    Please Helppppp

    Cheers
    Gav
     
    gavi101, Mar 18, 2008
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    penrynTech Notebook Guru

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    Very simple to do and is safe as long as you don't lose the disks. First click on start then right mouse click on my computer. Select manage and in the window that pops up select disk management on the left. You should be able to see the hidden partition here and by clicking on the drive information in the top window, selecting format should format it to a useable drive. If you then want to add it to your C: drivespace a program such as partition resizer should do the trick
     
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    eVoHicks Notebook Guru

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    Hi, be careful when deleting system partitions, sometimes they have to interact with restore disks. With my previous Acer 5685 I deleted all partitions (4) created one and used just that one, but then realised I needed the recovery partition to reinstate the Laptop to its original state.
    In my case it was ok because I had a backup copy of Xp Mce, but I could have been in trouble otherwise.
     
    eVoHicks, Mar 18, 2008
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  4. gavi101

    gavi101 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have tried doing this but it doesnt work. Unable to reformat.

    eVoHicks: so it might be a bad idea to reformatt this drive???

    Any one else ??
     
    gavi101, Mar 18, 2008
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    One small remark, if I may: you can have the factory default dvds burned with erecovery, if you delete your partitions, the dvds will not be able to restore your system as they do not repartition your hard drive. They also have references about each partition (at least their number and order) so it will look for it, won't find it, install anyway and after reboot, you'll get an "Operating system missing" error.
    I know this because it is also my case, I have made factory default dvds, deleted all partitions, made 1 ntfs and tried recovering.
     
    tnyynt, Mar 19, 2008
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  6. TeeJay 44

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    Rather keep the recovery partition intact. I advise against deleting it.

    There have been too many sad stories and problems from users that have "blown" the partition "away". So to speak.

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 19, 2008
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    gmcgee Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've had no problems after deleting my recovery partitions I even had a triple boot going on for a bit(vista, xp, ubuntu). I have since dropped vista but it took me a few tries to get the triple boot working and I installed vista from burned recovery disks at least 3 times with no problems. It might be different for your machine but my 5920-6313 recovery disks would just copy all the needed files to whatever the first partition on my HDD was.

    With that said you need to weigh the risks against the possible gains. Some people are reporting problems after deleting their recovery partitions so unless you feel comfortable troubleshooting any problems that might arise it probably isn't worth an extra 9 gigs.

    Oh but if you still want to try it I would suggest using a knoppix live cd and using Gparted.
     
    gmcgee, Mar 19, 2008
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  8. gino_lee

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    I believe Partition Magic should be able to let your work with all the partitions and re-intergrate it into your C drive.

    I think if using an install CD (not recovery) of winXP, you will have the option of deleting/formating hidden partitions at the start of the procedure.
     
    gino_lee, Mar 20, 2008
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    I believe Partition Magic should be able to let your work with all the partitions and re-intergrate it into your C drive.

    I think if using an install CD (not recovery) of winXP, you will have the option of deleting/formating hidden partitions at the start of the procedure.
     
    gino_lee, Mar 20, 2008
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