The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Has anyone deleted their recovery partitions?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by sanjie, Jan 18, 2012.

  1. sanjie

    sanjie Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    59
    Messages:
    332
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I need to have 1 free partition for a dual boot setup and the recovery partitions is the only choice I have but I'm not sure if it's safe to delete it. I have created my recovery discs and I already used it once.
     
    sanjie, Jan 18, 2012
    #1
  2. Althernai

    Althernai Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    919
    Messages:
    2,233
    Likes Received:
    98
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Yes, I've done it. You can supposedly set up a dual-boot without it by moving HP_Tools to an extended partition instead, but if you have the disks, the recovery partition is unnecessary.
     
    Althernai, Jan 19, 2012
    #2
  3. sanjie

    sanjie Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    59
    Messages:
    332
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Do I only need 1 unused partitions?
     
    sanjie, Jan 19, 2012
    #3
  4. teotuf

    teotuf Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    71
    Messages:
    396
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    you can have 4 basic partitions on a single HDD, and before I got my SSD and moved the HDD to the optical bay, I chose to get rid of the useless 200mb systems partition instead of hp_tools or recovery partition.

    you need a windows 7 recovery disc (you can make one in windows), so that you can restore the boot manager onto your C: instead of the 200mb partition.
     
    teotuf, Jan 19, 2012
    #4
  5. sanjie

    sanjie Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    59
    Messages:
    332
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Thanks for the info, but I'd rather lose the recovery partitions. :eek:
     
    sanjie, Jan 19, 2012
    #5
  6. sanjie

    sanjie Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    59
    Messages:
    332
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I'm running Ubuntu now with my recovery partitions gone. Thank you guys.
     
    sanjie, Jan 20, 2012
    #6