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    Sacking the partition

    Discussion in 'HP' started by S_P_Q_R, Oct 13, 2008.

  1. S_P_Q_R

    S_P_Q_R Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm wanting to delete my recovery partition and I've read a few articles on how to do so, some of them in NBR archives, which seem far more of a complicated procedures than what I found on this page.

    Sacking

    Does anyone see a problem removing the partition with this method ?

    Any feedback would be appreciated!
     
    S_P_Q_R, Oct 13, 2008
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  2. Andy

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    Download GParted, and delete whichever partition you want to.
    (Deleting the OS partition ?)
     
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    Downloaded as this and it won't open?

    gparted-0.3.9.tar.bz2
     
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    Andy, Oct 13, 2008
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    Andy I appreciate your help I really do. but I couldn't even get that to open after downloading twice.

    To add to this it took 5 times as long to try your suggestion with no result than it took me using the method I posted to delete the partition which was easy enough.

    I don't know if you even looked at that method I posted which uses Computer Management but you might want to have a look at it as it maybe of some use as an alternative in the future.
     
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    lol..good, disk management worked out for you. I prefer GParted, since it is independent from windows, and is better than disk mngt. Too bad you couldn't get GParted to work even after reading the documentation (?). Normally, users don't have much trouble running GParted, even without going through the documentation. :p

    (You just need to download the ISO, burn it to a CD, boot through the CD and use the tool, to delete/resize the partitions)

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm
     
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    I got half way through reading what was on that link and got totally lost and thought I'd rather destory my H/D than go on :confused:
     
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    Would have been a better solution ^. :D j/k
     
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    Hard drives are cheaper than mental health care :twitcy:
     
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    dude don't remove the recovery partitions ur gonna regret sooner or later when u spill beer on ur recovery dvds or u lose them somewhere .. and then ur gonna bang ur head on the wall .. just buy anexternal hdd if u want more space for ur **** XD ..

    trust me DON't remove ..

    but if u r gonna remove it just use the option in the recovery manager to remove the recovery partition .. or use vista to delete the partition and expand any other partition ..

    again STOP thinking bout deleting it .. also if ur gonna want to sell it at some point ur gonna want to leave it for the poor soul who takes it

    cheers
     
    bAsem, Oct 19, 2008
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