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    deleting and merging recovery partition

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by keisuke28, Apr 14, 2010.

  1. keisuke28

    keisuke28 Notebook Consultant

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    I just realized that the sony recovery partition uses up 8gb of space and was wondering if there is a way to delete and merge this partition to the primary partition? thanks in advance.
     
    keisuke28, Apr 14, 2010
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  2. NHT

    NHT Notebook Evangelist

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    Deleting: yes, you can, with diskpart
    Merging: I'm not sure, but I think you can't.
     
    NHT, Apr 14, 2010
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    Boo Boo Notebook Deity

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    use a win 7 install, select custom delete all partitions create what you want than
     
    Boo Boo, Apr 14, 2010
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    keisuke28 Notebook Consultant

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    I've tried this. After I delete the partition, there's no option to merge it to an existing partition.


    *Edit* Used easeus partition master and was able to merge the partition to the primary C: partition.
     
    keisuke28, Apr 14, 2010
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