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dennis@home
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      12-12-2007
I want to remove the 10G recovery partition on my vista machine (I have an
install DVD which I have used to install vista so its a waste of space).
However disk manager wont let me do anything with it.
I can delete it in Ubuntu using parted but Vista doesn't see the free space.
I can reformat it at a new partition using NTFS in Ubuntu but then Vista
sees it as it did originally and wont let me do anything.
I don't want to reinstall if I can avoid it.
Any suggestions?

 
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      12-12-2007
dennis@home wrote:

> I want to remove the 10G recovery partition on my vista machine (I
> have an install DVD which I have used to install vista so its a waste
> of space). However disk manager wont let me do anything with it. I
> can delete it in Ubuntu using parted but Vista doesn't see the free
> space. I can reformat it at a new partition using NTFS in Ubuntu but
> then Vista sees it as it did originally and wont let me do anything.
> I don't want to reinstall if I can avoid it. Any suggestions?


I had a similar problem with an Acer laptop. I'd delete the recovery
partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned out Acer had
a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an attempt to protect
it.

I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was able
to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.

 
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      12-12-2007


"FrobozzCo" <A white house> wrote in message
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> dennis@home wrote:
>
>> I want to remove the 10G recovery partition on my vista machine (I
>> have an install DVD which I have used to install vista so its a waste
>> of space). However disk manager wont let me do anything with it. I
>> can delete it in Ubuntu using parted but Vista doesn't see the free
>> space. I can reformat it at a new partition using NTFS in Ubuntu but
>> then Vista sees it as it did originally and wont let me do anything.
>> I don't want to reinstall if I can avoid it. Any suggestions?

>
> I had a similar problem with an Acer laptop. I'd delete the recovery
> partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned out Acer had
> a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an attempt to protect
> it.
>
> I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was able
> to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.
>


Which utility did you use?
Its been a while since I had to fiddle with the MBR.

 
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      12-12-2007
dennis@home wrote:

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>
> "FrobozzCo" <A white house> wrote in message
> news:...
> >
> > I had a similar problem with an Acer laptop. I'd delete the
> > recovery partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned
> > out Acer had a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an
> > attempt to protect it.
> >
> > I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was
> > able to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.
> >

>
> Which utility did you use?
> Its been a while since I had to fiddle with the MBR.


I used a BootIT NG setup disk cause I use BootIT NG to dual boot my
desktop. <http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/>

I would suspect that the Vista bootrec utility would also do the job.
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392>
 
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      12-13-2007


"FrobozzCo" <A white house> wrote in message
news:...
> dennis@home wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> "FrobozzCo" <A white house> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> >
>> > I had a similar problem with an Acer laptop. I'd delete the
>> > recovery partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned
>> > out Acer had a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an
>> > attempt to protect it.
>> >
>> > I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was
>> > able to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.
>> >

>>
>> Which utility did you use?
>> Its been a while since I had to fiddle with the MBR.

>
> I used a BootIT NG setup disk cause I use BootIT NG to dual boot my
> desktop. <http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/>
>
> I would suspect that the Vista bootrec utility would also do the job.
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392>


Fixed it now.
There is a command line fdisk in vista that did the job.
diskpart.exe

 
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      12-13-2007
dennis@home wrote:


> Fixed it now.
> There is a command line fdisk in vista that did the job.
> diskpart.exe



Cool. I didn't know about the diskpart.exe utility.
Looks like diskpart would have done the job for me as well without the
need to resort to the BootIT NG tools.


 
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