new Z12 - reclaim disk space?

Hi guys, just got my new Z12 home (lovely laptop). I could only scrape enough cash together for the 128gb SSD.

I want to get as much of this space as possible, I was planning to delete the recovery partition and resize the windows partition to use the existing space, but I can't seem to delete the recovery partition.

Do I have to completely wipe the hard disk and repartition and reinstall windows?
and if so, can the windows 7 setup process deal with the repartitioning?

 

before doing anything, make a set of backup disks with the vaio recovery utility onto high quality dvd -r disks. then get the ABR utility and extract your serial code for windows onto a usb stick, it's not the same as what's printed on the bottom of the laptop actually... after that you should download a win7 pro iso and strip out the ei cfg, burn it to dvd and boot off of it. choose advanced setup and delete all the partitions, then make new partition(s) and install. after install, use ABR to restore your serial key, then patch the OS and install drivers as normal. Youll have saved 11GB or more depending on how the machine was configured.

 

google...you need to do this from diskpart with the override flag.