dv6 6140 tx

hi,
I bought this laptop last month. It had a whole lot of HP add ons.. I haven't done the hp back up thing either..
As of now there's just on 500GB partition and another 10GB HP recovery partition or something like that.
Is it a good idea to take that off along with all the add ons?

 

First of all, some of the addons are important. Secondly, there's no reason to get rid of the recovery partition. If you make the recovery disks and trust yourself not to lose them, then I guess you would be safe, but it's not like 10GB is a huge amount of space.

 

It's not about the space.. I just wanted to have 2 drives as in shrink my C drive to around 150-200 GB and keep all my data on the other partition. Win 7 doesn't allow more than a certain number of partitions... That is the reason why i thought of wiping out those add ons....
btw which addons are important? I would for sure not want to mess around with the addons that make the mouse work

 

If you don't mind having to reinstall all of your applications, then you can do a minimal system image restore, which resets your computer to factory condition without the crapware, but keeps the important utilities. The recovery partition has nothing to do with the addons. The recovery partition is what allows you to do the factory restore if you hose your system up.

 

o ok cool.... but will i be able to add a partition that way?

 

C:\ (local disk) and D:\ (RECOVERY), I believe, are both primary partitions. I am not sure what HP_TOOLS and the SYSTEM partitions are. I am thinking one of them is a logical drive (could be wrong - my dv6 isn't in front of me at the moment). Even so, that leaves you at least one primary partition left to create that you can extend and divide into all the logical drives you wish, provided that you have the free space.

 

Its relatively new... and i've not really started using it yet... so there's a whole lotta space on it.. Win 7 allows only 4 partitions.. 3 of which HP has used up with bloatware. the only available partition now is the C drive...
which I was not sure if it was ok to use something like partition magic on.

 

Again, it's not bloatware, and there's only two HP partitions, Recovery and HP TOOLS. And I'm pretty sure HP TOOLS isn't a primary partition.

 

here's an image i saw online... This is what my disk management looks like..

All four[System, c:, Recovery and HP_Tools] of them are primary partitions!

 

Even if what you are saying is the case (and I have to be honest, what hockeymass says about HP partitions sounds pretty accurate - seeing that image of your drives would help), you can still extend one of the primary partitions (the one with the most free space) to include the free space then create logical partitions within it. IIRC, you can create logical drives (partitions) as long as you have a letter free to assign to it.

Although they are technically not partitions, logical drives are used just like partitions, and many informally call them "partitions" most of the time.