Partition managing on Vista.

I want to get rid of the hidden recovery for xp on my thinkpad. I now installed Vista. I need help getting a software that works on Vista and that would help me gaining the 5gb that's lost to XP hidden partition. Would I need to reformat later? I don't have the Vista key on me.

 

have u taken a look at vista disk management? it has the ability to expand a partition using available disk space (gui as well)

cheers ...

 

No, where can I find that?

 

OK, found it. Now what?

 

http://www.tweakvista.com/article38991.aspx

cheers ...

 

Can't do that, it's a hidden partition. I can see it on disk managment but can't shrink it nor can I expand the main partition.

 

There's an option in BIOS to hide the "secret" partition. Disable that and it should be fairly simple to get rid of the partition. (At least that's how it is with mine)

Of course, in my case, roughly 16 hours after deleting the partition, I mucked up my system so badly neither Windows nor XP install CD's will boot... Could have used the recovery partition now....

 

Been to the BIOS, couldn't figure out how either. Am I that bad? Admins, please change my title from reviewer to newbie!

 

You would be better off using a specialised tool like partition magic

 

Vista compatible?

 

Here's a freebie that works with vista
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/manual/vista.html