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    SSD - Need to delete recovery partition and expand SDD to full size

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by Tinderbox (UK), Aug 31, 2012.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

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    I just bought an 256gb Samsung 830, I did a clone of my HDD, but it has a 20gb recovery partition, it there an app to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.

    I cannot do it in Win7 Disk management as Samsung seems to have locked the partition, I could use partition wizard boot dvd to delete it and then get Win7 to expand the partition.

    But is there a tool to do this automatically, I have Samsung Recovery Solution 5

    Thanks

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Aug 31, 2012
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    Will diskpart do the deleting?

    John
     
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    That worked great tom, once it was delete it was easy to expand the sdd to full size :)

    edit : , it cannot be does, it has to be on the drive it is protecting, Now i just need to work out how to put the system restore files on my second hdd, i can turn off system restore on c and creat it on d, but when i try and use system restore i get an error.

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Aug 31, 2012
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