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    Can I delete the extra partitions?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Musti08, Oct 13, 2010.

  1. Musti08

    Musti08 Notebook Enthusiast

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    HP_TOOLS & Recovery partitions. 20GB of wasted space. Can I delete the both of them?

    I noticed in HP_TOOLS there is mention of BIOS files..does the BIOS on these laptops seriously need that partition to always be active?

    Thanks!
     
    Musti08, Oct 13, 2010
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  2. timtravel42

    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Make sure that you make recovery discs, and then you can delete both of those partitions, you will just lose the hard drive based recovery functionality
     
    timtravel42, Oct 13, 2010
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