55.5GB of 'Healthy primary partition' - I don't use that one :s

Hi, I have two partitions in my laptop, one for my windows 7 and stuff (154GB) and one which just has my work on it (78.78GB) The other one which is 9.77GB is for when I had Vista, i'm not too bothered about that.

http://i49.tinypic.com/21deyrs.png

The other one, which is 55.5GB I don't know what the hell it is. But if it says 'Primary partition' then i'm not sure weather to just delete it. But its 55GB, I can't just leave it.

What do I do?

Thanks.

 

I can't see your picture, but the picture that I can't see makes me have to sidescroll a lot.

Your picture is huge and garbled, in other words.

 

It's probably the recovery partition if i'm not mistaken

it's used so you can restore you windows to factory state using recovery

i think you can only get rid of it when u perform a clean install of windows

 

Bad picture ~_~

anyway, i really doubt it's a recovery partition. 55 GB for that? Seems such of a waste of any manufacturer did that.

I think you could get more help if you posted more details, at least what laptop, or manufacturer, etc. Has it always been there since you bought that laptop? It might be absolutely nothing; just because it's primary does not make it suddenly something important.

 

seems like you have a 320gb drive right?

usually a recovery partition is at the beginning or end of a drive since its usually created first or last so i highly doubt that a 55gb partition somewhere in the middle of the drive is your recovery.
i have never seen a recovery that big in size either because even if it was a mirror image of what your comp would be stock it would not be that big (assuming your comp doesnt come with a massive amount of junk installed)

i also dont understand how you couldnt know what its for since it seems like your the one who partitioned it in the first place. either way the comp says its empty so you could delete the partition and extend another with those 55gbs

 

Sorry about the pic, I just went on paint on windows 7 and pasted the printscreen and saved it without looking. lol.

The recovery partition is the 9.77GB one. And its not always been there, ive only just discovered it yesterday when I went to create a new partition and i was like 'Whats that!?"

I have an Asus x59sl with 3gb Ram and 320GB hard drive.

 

in disk manager, right click on the drives and add a drive letter.
then you can see whats on them. also, go to properties for each drive, and give them sensible short names to make it easier to identify them in future.
the 9gb at the start is almost certainly a recovery one.
as Chango99 says, you need to at least give the make, model number and any other basic info you can to get meaningful answers.
could be machine specific so maybe post in your manufacturers forum.
edit your sig to make life easier for you next time.