Partitioned part of hard drive

Hi. I have a V3000 and I have 9.21Gb partitioned for recovery. I have made the recovery discs using the program that came with the laptop; the one called PC Recovery Disc Creator from the System Recovery folder.

I double-clicked on the partition and it says that I shouldn't delete it. Would it be prudent to adhere to this suggestion, even though I already made the recovery discs? Thanks for any help you guys can provide.

 

not really... first thing i did when I received mine was to make the discs then immediately deleted that partition and got an extra 15 gbs of space...

 

hmm.... i see. thanks for the suggestion.

i guess i have two other questions.
1. After deleting the partition (with recovery discs made), is everything all right? Any problems worth mentioning?
2. How do you delete the partition?

Sorry for these very newbie questions. I'm very intuitive with computers, but when it comes to deleting major things, I'm very cautious. I've learned in the past.

 

You can use "Partition Magic" and resize the partition that you currently use to take up the "unlocated partition". With that you gain all the memory and will have only one partition for the OS. I'm not sure if it's best to Defrag. first (the unlocated one) before resizing? I'm sure somebody will correct me on that.
I think there is some free programs out there to do that as well, not sure what they are. Good luck.
Oh, and to delete the partition without using Part. Magic, >rightclick on my computer>manage>storage>diskmanagement, there you will see the partitions on your HDD. Rightclick on the one you want to delete and delete. Worked for me.

 

Ok. I just deleted the compaq partition without using Partition Magic. I just went right click my computer>manage>storage>disk management.

However, when I deleted the compaq partition, I was expecting it to just merge with the main larger partition (it's C: drive on my case). It didn't merge and it ended up not having a drive letter, so I couldn't access it. I ended up making it to an empty partition, which is D: drive. This isn't much of an inconvenience, but I originaly wanted to have no partitions. Is there a way to do this?

 

GPARTED works well for this type of thing. Google it, download the ISO, burn to CD-r, boot to CD. Delete the small partition then resize your main one.

CAUTION: If you are running Vista it does not like changes to the partitions. I have had to reinstall Vista due to partition changes.
XP does not really care. As always, backup your stuff and defrag before any partition changes.