Sony Recovery Partiton removal?

Is there a way to remove the sony recovery partition. I have the recovery disks made and im going to get a 120gb ssd. Is there a way to remove the recovery partiton from the ssd to give me the full storage?

Basically what im trying to say is - can i install the recovery and then delete the recovery image or install the recovery image on the fly and not keep the recovery partiton on the hdd?

Sounds lame - but id rather burn 5 disks for a once every 6 months reinstall than have that recovery image always stored on my laptop.

 

The Sony recovery partition can only be used to return you machine to its out of the box state. Put the disks you made in a safe place in case you decide to sell the machine. Next, create an image of the existing drive and use THAT to clone to your new SSD. Periodically create a new image as your backup. With Win7 there is no need to EVERY do the old reinistall every six months.

Gary

 

"Next, create an image of the existing drive and use THAT to clone to your new SSD"

how do i do that ^ ???

 

The easier way is to perform a system recovery from your recovery DVDs (assuming you already created them). When chosing advanced options, you have a choice to recover with a minimalistic recovery partition, where the recovery partition persists but at a size about 10% of the original. It's not a fully functional recovery but have a minimum set of tools to help you repair Windows or make some diagnostics. But since you want to get rid of it, this won't hurt you.

To remove it completely you can do it from DISKPART and then use a tool to shrink/enlarge live partitions, so you can make your system partition to reclaim the space left over by the deleted recovery one. Only in this case you'll need some time to learn such tools.

 

There are several apps that will allow you to do it. Personally I use an old copy of Ghost from 2003. I have also used Acronis. Do a google search for partition cloning or partition imaging software.

Gary