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    DV6000 - removing recovery partition! Can't figure it out

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Ardroth, Mar 15, 2008.

  1. Ardroth

    Ardroth Notebook Consultant

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    Ok... I feel completely stupid now. I did a complete reformat and reinstall on my system using the Recovery discs (DVDs) that I initially burned when I first bought the unit. I then somehow got rid of the recovery partition to get back the 11GB of space it took up (and because I had everything backed up on the recovery discs, and external drives). Now... I can't figure out how I did that! I did what they said on the HP site, and I can't figure it out... I'm baffled how I did it before (18 or so months ago). According to the site you must put "recovery" in the windows search engine. I did that, and that's where I stop... after that it says "select recovery manager"... I don't see recovery manager... anywhere! What exactly am I doing wrong?
     
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  2. radopod

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    I don't seem to get the question. Why do you want to make the recovery disks when you already have a set of those?
     
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  3. Ardroth

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    No... I don't want to make the recovery disks... I want to REMOVE the 11GB recovery Partition.
     
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  4. radopod

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    Well that should be easy. Go to My Computer and right click on the Recover Disk Partition. Click on Format and you should be set to have a clean volume. If you want to add those free GBs into some other partition go to Computer Management and then into Disk management from there.
     
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    Go into the recovery manager software that came on your computer and you remove the partition through the advanced settings.
     
    Tib30015, Mar 15, 2008
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