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    Deleting a Recovery Partition from an Old Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Flapjack001, Dec 23, 2009.

  1. Flapjack001

    Flapjack001 Newbie

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    Hi,

    Hopefully this will be a pretty straight forward one for someone out there to answer for me. I've just upgraded the hard drive in my sony vaio laptop (vgn-fs115s) to a 160GB drive, re-installed windows and everything is working perfectly. What I want to do now is use the old 60GB hard drive as a USB storage device...

    Now, I've used disk management (XP) to delete the partitions that were on there to create one large drive but it won't let me delete the recovery partition, which is taking up about 10GB on the drive. Obviously there's no need benefit to me in keeping the partition but I can't find anywhere any instructions on how to delete the partition when the drive is now basically a usb drive with no operating system on it?

    Any help appreciated!!

    Thanks

    Gary
     
    Flapjack001, Dec 23, 2009
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    ahl395, Dec 23, 2009
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