HP Recovery (D:) drive help?

Hello everyone, I am trying to clean up my HP DV9000 laptop because my C: drive was down to 15.2g of free space. The HDD is supposed to be 120g and I know you can't use the full storage capacity but between my C: drive and the D: drive (Hp Recovery drive) I only have a total of 92.04g worth of drive space. That's a total of 27.96g of space I am losing.

So what I am wondering is if I can delete the D: drive so that my C: drive has more storage capacity. I am taking up digital photography and I need to make a partition for my Photoshop scratch disk and want to gain as much space as I can.

Any help and advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

The recovery partition is only around 10GB or so...you wont get the 27GB since your drive isnt technically 120GB due to the fact that HDD manufacturers rate HDD capacities based on 1GB = 1,000MB not 1024MB. But if you want to regain the extra space then it is safe to delete the restore partition as long as you have burnt the restore DVD's using the HP provided software. If you havent burnt and deleted the restore partition then you would be left with no restore option in the event you want to put the system back to factory state

 

I bought the recovery CD when I purchased the laptop, so I would safe to delete that 10g partition then? What is the best way to do that, and how do I set up a new partition for my photoshop scratch drive?

Thank you very much for the help and info.

 

Vista or XP? In Vista Start->right click on Computer->Manage-> Disk Management and you should then be able to delete the smaller restore partition and then extend the main partiton.

In XP, you would require a third party partition tool.

I have heard of people having issues with the HP provided restore DVD's. They are just not as reliable as the ones you burn in the system. I would recommend that you burn those discs before deleting the partition just in case as a backup.

 

I'm using XP home edt. I did create a backup of my system using nero backit up and saved it to my external hdd. And I created a bootup disc using nero backit up as well. Will this do or what else do I have to burn?

Any sugguestions for Partitioning software?

 

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

I havent personally used it but couple of people recommended it in the forums. I usually use gnome partition manager usually found in linux dvd's. Its up to you, if you are confident your backs are going to work then buring the restore DVD's isnt necessary.

 

Thanks I'll give it a try!

 

Ok well it kind of worked and it kind of didn't. I copied the old D: drive from my laptop to my external HDD. Then deleted the old D: drive, but when I tried to resize my C: drive and leave 5 gigs for a new partition it keeps giving me an error and won't let me. So now I'm stuck with 9.64 gigs of unallocated space that I can't do anything with.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

bump...anyone have any ideas?

 

Hmm...well, try Gnome Partition Editor. This is what is typically included in most linux distributions and has worked well in the past for me. You'll have to burn the downloaded image file(Live CD) to a CD/DVD and then boot into the CD in order to extend the primary partition.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

(FWIW read up on the documentation and use at your own risk)

 

My dv9535nr won't allow me to make recovery discs, and I have never done so. There are recovery discs I got with the notebook from Best Buy (no charge, unlike some) but that would have all the crapware included, wouldn't it?

Why won't the HP Recovery let me make the discs?

 

Edit: This should have been a new thread since it is on a different topic. Asking this question here is called hijacking the thread. A moderator should turn the previous post (and this reply) into a new thread.

What message do you get when you try to make the Recovery Discs?

Possibly Best Buy used the HP Recovery Disc creator to make the Recovery discs you got with the notebook. Normally you can only make one set of discs but there is a workaround for that issue.

 

It tells me a set has been made, and reminds me that only one set can be. Looks like the Best Buy set is THE set. I suspected that before I posted.