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I just bought a new HP, which didn't come with recovery disks, but a
recovery partition. I requested a set of recovery disks be sent to me, so
now I have part of my hard drive partitioned off for something I don't need.
The manual that came with the PC says the recovery partition can be removed
with a simple tool, but it doesn't say what the tool is or anything. So...
any ideas? Could I just delete the files?

Thanks in advance,

Denise

Yes you can, but if you get the cd set and have to run it again, guess
what...

"Denise" <> wrote in message
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> I just bought a new HP, which didn't come with recovery disks, but a
> recovery partition. I requested a set of recovery disks be sent to me, so
> now I have part of my hard drive partitioned off for something I don't
need.
> The manual that came with the PC says the recovery partition can be
removed
> with a simple tool, but it doesn't say what the tool is or anything.
So...
> any ideas? Could I just delete the files?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Denise
>
>
>

yess you can without trouble delete charles
"Denise" <> schreef in bericht
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> I just bought a new HP, which didn't come with recovery disks, but a
> recovery partition. I requested a set of recovery disks be sent to me, so
> now I have part of my hard drive partitioned off for something I don't
need.
> The manual that came with the PC says the recovery partition can be
removed
> with a simple tool, but it doesn't say what the tool is or anything.
So...
> any ideas? Could I just delete the files?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Denise
>
>
>

"Denise" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I just bought a new HP, which didn't come with recovery disks, but a
> recovery partition. I requested a set of recovery disks be sent to me, so
> now I have part of my hard drive partitioned off for something I don't
need.
> The manual that came with the PC says the recovery partition can be
removed
> with a simple tool, but it doesn't say what the tool is or anything.
So...
> any ideas? Could I just delete the files?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Denise
>
>
>

PartitionMagic Pro

"Graham" <> wrote in message
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> "Denise" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > I just bought a new HP, which didn't come with recovery disks, but a
> > recovery partition. I requested a set of recovery disks be sent to me,
so
> > now I have part of my hard drive partitioned off for something I don't
> need.
> > The manual that came with the PC says the recovery partition can be
> removed
> > with a simple tool, but it doesn't say what the tool is or anything.
> So...
> > any ideas? Could I just delete the files?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Denise
> >
> >
> >
>
> PartitionMagic Pro
>
>

haha sorry Im turning into a tekkie now. The name of the program that will
enable you to delete a whole partition is "Partition Magic Pro"
(http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/) - This is not recommended by HP
or anything - Just a straight up program intended for that purpose.

"Denise" <> wrote in message
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I just bought a new HP, which didn't come with recovery disks, but a
recovery partition. I requested a set of recovery disks be sent to me, so
now I have part of my hard drive partitioned off for something I don't need.
The manual that came with the PC says the recovery partition can be removed
with a simple tool, but it doesn't say what the tool is or anything. So...
any ideas? Could I just delete the files?

Thanks in advance,

Denise



As some mentioned Partition Magic can do it but if you are running an NT OS
you can right click on My Computer and then click on Manage. From there
click on Disk Management and right click on the blue bar on the partition
you want to work with. This will give you several options which may or may
not be what you want but is much cheaper than purchasing PM.

Roger

"Denise" <> wrote in message
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> I just bought a new HP, which didn't come with recovery disks, but a
> recovery partition. I requested a set of recovery disks be sent to me, so
> now I have part of my hard drive partitioned off for something I don't
need.
> The manual that came with the PC says the recovery partition can be
removed
> with a simple tool, but it doesn't say what the tool is or anything.
So...
> any ideas?
>
its called FDISK

"RDS" wrote:
> As some mentioned Partition Magic can do it but if you are running an NT
OS you can right click on My Computer and then click on Manage. From there
click on Disk Management and right click on the blue bar on the partition
you want to work with. This will give you several options which may or may
not be what you want but is much cheaper than purchasing PM.

Thank you all for your replies; I am looking into all the suggestions, but I
have a question about this particular one. It gives me several options, as
you said it would. But in looking around on the disk management dialog, I
noticed that the recovery partition has a different file system than the
other partition; the recovery section is FAT32 and the rest of the drive is
NTFS. So if I were to choose this option, would I need to Format the
partition, or just delete it altogether?

Bumbling around and not ashamed to admit it (though I probably should be),

Denise

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>
> "Denise" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> I just bought a new HP, which didn't come with recovery disks, but a
> recovery partition. I requested a set of recovery disks be sent to me, so
> now I have part of my hard drive partitioned off for something I don't
need.
> The manual that came with the PC says the recovery partition can be
removed
> with a simple tool, but it doesn't say what the tool is or anything.
So...
> any ideas? Could I just delete the files?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Denise
>
>
>
> As some mentioned Partition Magic can do it but if you are running an NT
OS
> you can right click on My Computer and then click on Manage. From there
> click on Disk Management and right click on the blue bar on the partition
> you want to work with. This will give you several options which may or
may
> not be what you want but is much cheaper than purchasing PM.
>
> Roger
>
>

Hi Roger

I am interested by your suggestion but cannot find 'editing' style options
for partition resizing etc. in the place you said. Please speak to me like I
am an idiot I have a linux partition I want to get rid of.

"Denise" <> wrote in message
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"RDS" wrote:
> As some mentioned Partition Magic can do it but if you are running an NT
OS you can right click on My Computer and then click on Manage. From there
click on Disk Management and right click on the blue bar on the partition
you want to work with. This will give you several options which may or may
not be what you want but is much cheaper than purchasing PM.

Thank you all for your replies; I am looking into all the suggestions, but I
have a question about this particular one. It gives me several options, as
you said it would. But in looking around on the disk management dialog, I
noticed that the recovery partition has a different file system than the
other partition; the recovery section is FAT32 and the rest of the drive is
NTFS. So if I were to choose this option, would I need to Format the
partition, or just delete it altogether?

Bumbling around and not ashamed to admit it (though I probably should be),

Denise

Denise,
You can delete the partition, add the partion back, and then format it
however you wish. You must keep in mind that the NT partitions can read a
FAT32 partition but a FAT32 cannot read an NT partition!!!!!!!!!!!! A good
example is an emergency boot disk for Windows 95B, 98, or ME. Since you
have aquired the CDs for recovery that may not matter to you. Should you
need to run the recovery CDs it will put everything back in the state it is
in now, as mentioned in an earlier posting.

That being said, the easiest way I know to get ride of the recovery
partition information is to just format it within the disk management
console. If you are wanting to add the recovery partition back to another
partition you can do that as well but I will not cover that here because it
is to indept and not for those with limited knowledge. You must read and
understand every menu that is presented to you before proceding. If you do
not CLEARLY understand it DO NOT do it!

Roger