W7 Recovery Partition & Activation questions

Oh man, I feel totally like some kind of n00b . Anyway, here's the deal. I'm thinking 'bout doing W7 clean install. I added second hard drive last year and did some partition resizing operations with W7 Disk Management program. As I was doing that, (now comes the fun part ) I've noticed 14.5Gb partition without a name or mark which was located before OS partition. I thought, what the hell?! So I punched "delete" button (funny, there wasn't any Yes/No warning windows, at least I think so lol), but as I did this it suddenly struck me, dude what's W7 Recovery Partition . Butterfingers . It's not a big deal, but 2 questions pupped up.
1) When I'm going to install W7, it will create Recovery Partition by its self, but where?
Will it create Recpar on those same 14Gb or will it create another one and those 14Gb will just be empty there. In that case I presume a total format would be in order.
2) W7 activation. Will I have to reactivate manually W7 if I'm going to install it from ASUS Windows 7 OEM Disk or will it activate automatically?
Thank you for your attention.

 

Dude, you are funny
When you use OEM discs they will create recovery partition itself. If you use usual win 7 disk it won't do it at all.

All I said were my thoughts grown on my experience with Sony and I can't guarantee anything

 

My thoughts are that this parition was the ASUS Recovery partition, and that if you do a reinstall from your ASUS OEM discs, the partition should be rebuilt. Not sure if you know this or not, but deleting partitions to the left of the OS doesn't gain you much. You can't easily shift the OS partition to the left and be able to join that extra 14.5GB to another volume.

 

Yeah, but you can use it like additional place for storage or for placing paging file there I did it before with my 9GB rec partition

 

Yup, it was (he he) ASUS Rec. Par.
anseio, James D
Thanks fof the info.
I also understand that it will activate automatically, without any problems.

 

Easily, well waiting isnt all that hard. Its only a 10 GB partition on myne with Vista.

But EASEUS Partition Master (Used to be called Partition magic) which is now free for home users (64 bit too) you can delete the partition and it will require a reboot, it will move the partition to the left and you can expand the end.

Very easy, just takes a few hours or more, go see a movie with your loved one lol.

Last i checked the partition usually isnt rebuilt by ASUS discs. I have seen it done on HP and Compaq from non model specific discs i bought from HP, but not from the ones the machine burns. My ASUS Discs are Vista and older the newer discs might be different.