About Sony VAIO recovery partition & disk usage

Hi there, so I bought a SZ740, and I'm pretty happy with it .

I've done searchs, and I couldn't find anything totally acurrate.

Well, I was told to do the recovery disks, and so I did, I've done 2 backups, one in a DL media, and the other in 2 normal DVD's.

After this, I thought maybe I can remove the partition of recovery. I installed Acronis Disk Director Suite (best partition manager for Vista?), and I found the following:
14GB+: Recovery partition.
5.8GB~: Unallocated space.
218GB~: Vista partition.

So, I realized, 14GB for the recovery OK, just because I don't need the extra space right now I can leave it there. But, the unallocated space is really nothing? why there is a gap between the recovery partition and the vista partition?.

After that I resized Vista partition to 40GB, and created another of 178GB.
14GB+: Recovery partition.
5.8GB~: Unallocated space.
40GB: Vista partition.
178GB: Documents partition.

So, my question is, that unallocated space is really nothing, right?. I can extend the Vista partiton to 45GB without problem...

After making the recovery disks I thought, it's more reliable to keep the 14GB partition just because it's on the HDD and it won't be corrupted and I can really access it if i'm somewhere else than my home (like on vacation) and I get the system messed up.

 

I don't know about the backup partition, as I used DVDs to reinstal the system after Windows Vista System Restore messed up the system (e.g. after I sent the laptop into sleep mode and woke it up, I couldn't shut down, some software caused problems...) and not the HHD copy.

But if you've got unallocated space then you can allocate that as you wish, therefore increase your Vista partition.

By the way, 40GB for Vista? ...I've first had 70, now I've allocated 80...