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    Removing Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by skygt, Apr 22, 2006.

  1. skygt

    skygt Newbie

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    7.4 gigs of my hardrive is used for a Recovery Partition, is there a way to remove this and put it back in my C drive or is this a seperate harddisk.
     
    skygt, Apr 22, 2006
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  2. NetBrakr

    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    Hello,

    The easiest way to do this is go through the a fresh installation of XP, at the beginning of the installation, it will give you delete or create a parition. Then after that, formating.

    I did it the hard way, sigh. I dont know what I was doing.

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Apr 22, 2006
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    skygt Newbie

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    Is there a way that doesn't require me to reformat my computer?
     
    skygt, Apr 22, 2006
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    Like I said, I did it the hard way. But I dont remember what I did.

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Apr 22, 2006
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    threeFiftyLi Notebook Consultant

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    A partition manager will allow you to just delete it and put that space back into your C:

    I used parition magic

    No reformat needed
     
    threeFiftyLi, Apr 22, 2006
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