No use even having it because I'm using Win 7 now...
any ideas how to kick it to the curb and get my 14.85 gigs back?!
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Any partition software can do that for you.
I use acronis, but there are other free software out there that will do the job nicely as well.
I would recommend backing up that partition to an external drive or something so that if in the future you need it you can put it back.
Hopes this helps.
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Back up the data, pop in the hard drive in other computer, or use a ubuntu live cd and format the whole disk. I got a ssd which i use as a primary disk, so it was easy for me to format it.
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Is there anyway to format it through Win 7?
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press the windows key, type in CMD and press shift-ctrl-enter
This should open up a command prompt with administrator rights.
In the command prompt type diskpart
It's a command line partition editor.
type list disk
See which disk is the one you want to edit
type select disk X, where X is the number of the disk you want to edit
type list partition and see which one is the one you want to delete (it should say type OEM or something)
type select partition X where X is the number of the partition you want to edit
type delete partition override, this will delete the current select partition, the override parameter is to bypass the OEM protection.
Be careful so you don't delete the wrong partition.
You can run diskmgmt.msc after deleting it and extend your current partition.
For reference:
list disk
select disk X
list partition
select partition X
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Thanks daddy, i got the lame partition cleared but how do you extend it with diskmgmt.msc?
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nevermind.
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awesome, I'll need to do this once my M11x comes in since I'll be using the 256GB SSD they gave me and will want every bit of GB for my self rather than a recovery partition I can back up =)
just to confirm, I won't have to reinstall Win7 right, it'll just take care of the 2nd partition and it can be extended?
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For future reference:
Right click Computer
Click Manage
Click Disk Management
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The recovery partition is flagged as oem. The disk management utility does not allow you to delete/change it because of that. This is to prevent "regular" users from deleting it without knowing what they are doing. Enabling it through a command line tool makes sure that you at least know what you're about to do.
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so using this "You can run diskmgmt.msc after deleting it and extend your current partition."
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Regarding the diskmanagement tool, you can only extend to the "right" if you look at the hard disk partitions in the graphical representation. You can't move partitions either.
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As htwingnut as said, you can only extend to the "right", if the recovery partition was at the start of the disk then it would require a 3rd party tool.
I would recommend using GParted live cd. But beware, this task takes alot of time to complete, and you risk losing your data if something goes wrongs along the way.
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Right, thanks MikeDaSpike (lol @ name) -
You finished my thought. One of my kids was doing something they shouldn't have so had to cut it short.
GParted is good, except I've had it screw up the bootable partition many times before. Thankfully Vista and Seven auto repair feature from the DVD seemed to fix it no problem. So yeah, be careful. But best thing to do is use GParted Live DVD to delete all partitions, and create your new ones, or just leave it blank if you only want one partition, and Windows 7 will just use all the open space. -
gotcha, I'll make sure to check that out =)
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