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    Deleting Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by BritGuy79, Jul 18, 2009.

  1. BritGuy79

    BritGuy79 Notebook Geek

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    Hello,

    I have recently purchased a Sony Vaio TT11M/N and am looking to delete the recovery partition as i have created the recovery discs.

    The only problem is i cannot find the partition. I was under the impression that the partition would be under a separate drive like d:, but there is only one drive the c:. How do i delete the recovery partition and where is it?

    The HD size is 120GB and it shows at 104GB. But the available amount is just over 80GB.

    Thanks
     
    BritGuy79, Jul 18, 2009
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  2. Rachel

    Rachel Busy Bee

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    Rachel, Jul 18, 2009
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  3. LIKE-NO-OTHER

    LIKE-NO-OTHER Newbie

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    Use the recovery disks you made to do a full system recovery. uncheck the option to keep the factory C drive size I believe. And that should do it. I don't have my disks with me but its obvios once you see the menu.
     
    LIKE-NO-OTHER, Jul 18, 2009
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  4. uncensored410

    uncensored410 Notebook Guru

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    you can delete by using EASEUS Partition Manager or when you're doing a clean install of windows, select the recovery partition, select format, then hit delete. the unused space should go to the C drive.
     
    uncensored410, Jul 18, 2009
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  5. Darth Llama

    Darth Llama Newbie

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    When I made my recovery disks, the backup partition was removed automatically. Before I ran the utility the recovery partition was visible under My Computer as drive D: and was called Vaio Recovery. If you don't see that and you already made your disks, it was probably removed already.
     
    Darth Llama, Jul 19, 2009
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  6. Rachel

    Rachel Busy Bee

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    You might want to check using computer management--->disk management if your recovery partiton has really been deleted. If you see something called EISA then has not been deleted.

     
    Rachel, Jul 19, 2009
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    UserofFZ21Z Notebook Consultant

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    Why not just get a Vista disc, and do a full clean install, which is what I do every now and again. It's the first thing I did when I got my laptop home, as I like all my disk space available from the off.
     
    UserofFZ21Z, Jul 20, 2009
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  8. BritGuy79

    BritGuy79 Notebook Geek

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    Thanks for your help.

    Well i was unable to delete the recovery partition via computer management.
    So i did a recovery and it got rid of it, but going back in to computer management it shows as EISA being 1.46GB, which i don't get.

    If i use a vista disc, doesn't that mean i will have to find the drivers and install them?
     
    BritGuy79, Jul 22, 2009
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  9. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    No it didn't. NO Vaio deletes the recovery partition "automatically".

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Jul 22, 2009
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  10. rceylon

    rceylon Newbie

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    Hey I don't want to jack your thread but I seem to be having a similar problem. I can't see the recovery partition even though I did a clean install with an OEM 32bit Vista on a previously XP installed Vaio. My disk management shows 111+g available out of 120g hard drive sooooo I'm missing a mysterious 8+ gigs.

    I'm probably going to follow your thread a bit to see if any of the steps you take apply to my situation. I mean...I want my friggin 8 gigs back!
     
    rceylon, Jul 23, 2009
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  11. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    You are not missing anything. The reported capacity of 111 GB is the actual capacity (in computer terms) of a 120 GB (marketing size) hard drive. Google "actual hard drive capacity" to know more.
     
    coolguy, Jul 23, 2009
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  12. rceylon

    rceylon Newbie

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    I googled like you suggested and read about the 7.2% loss at the gigabyte level and the explanation I read makes sense but I guess we still don't have to like it. Thanks for the info. R
     
    rceylon, Jul 23, 2009
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