64gb SSD has 20gb recovery partition

I just got my new mx14 and much to my dismay, dell has chosed to make a ~20gb partition on it for system recovery. That leaves me a 40.8gb partition which I can access that only has 16.7gb free after the windows install.

I would much rather have the recovery solution use the 500gb HD that is on the system. Can someone let me know how I can get rid of the recovery partition?

I tried to use windows system restore but it wants to backup up both the recovery and OS partitions. Can I just delete the recovery partition and then expand the OS partition?

 

just search in start menu for disk management and delete that partition

 

Wow, is it really that easy? Then I have to allocate the remaining space to the OS partition? No other gotchas?

 

Don't you just hate that!?
Like I got a 1TB disk and its comes like 975gigs. The coolest part is seeing the T not the G lol

 

Rilez, I understand that a 1TB drive won't end up having 1TB free space....what gets me is that Dell would choose to put a Recovery partition on the SSD, gobbling up ~30% of the capacity of the fastest drive in the laptop. Why in the world didn't they just plop it down onto the 500GB HD?

Am I missing something? Because I'm just about to delete that recovery partition.

 

I just tried to delete the recovery partition and it won't let me. All options are greyed out. I created an administrator account and granted all permissions to it and it still wouldn't let me delete the partition. What gives? What next?

 

What I did is that I reformat my new machine, delete all the partition(recovery & system reserved oem) and fresh install win7. It's all work just fine.. and you actually recover more GB. Previously default OS left me only around 10gb. Now with drivers and all.. I still have around 30gb

 

matrism, I was really hoping for an easier solution! I think I will dell tech support to see if there is an easier way. The only reason I paid extra for the 64gb SSD was to save the hassle of a fresh install. Otherwise I would have just bought and installed one myself.

 

I just got off the phone will Dell Tech Support and they were not willing to help me remove the partition or migrate it to my other HD. They said that the "recovery" partition is not just for recovery but also for increased performance and that I should not remove or move it.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

 

From my understanding, the recovery partition is only where they put the factory default OS and settings for easy restore(I THINK)..

Also, let say you able to migrate the partition to somewhere else.. I don't think any HD tools will let you merge the extra partition with your System(c partition. Again.. I might be wrong :|

 

Dell Tech guys know nothing or just making up things to dont waste their precious time on dealing with your issue. Recovery partition is only for recovery, nothing to do with performance obviously. I did a fresh install on my 256gb SSD and it only took around 1-2 hours with downloading and installing all drivers included in that, so I would suggest doing it and deleting the recovery part while reinstalling Windows 7.

 

I'm getting impatient to start setting up my laptop. I'm going to start a new thread with a more specific title (since I can't change this title) and hope to get someone's attention who knows how to delete or move the partition without doing a fresh install....which I would like to avoid.