I bought a laptop a couple months ago and have since then burned the recovery dvd's that it prompts you to do. The computer was advertised as an 80 GB hard drive, but the C Drive is 64 GB and there's a D Drive with all the recovery files. Since I burned the discs, shouldn't I be able to delete that 10 GB drive intended for recovery? If so, does anyone know how? My computer won't let me into it to even view the files.
2006-12-07 13:03:38 · 4 answers · asked by Kory 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
only do it if u sure that u got all the files on dvd. either u can download the partisiona magic and merge the c & d drive or go to disk management and than reformat the drive
2006-12-07 13:08:09 · answer #1 · answered by Sagar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your harddrive has already been partitioned. You cannot easily add that extra space into your c:\.
You can reformat your restore partition with a new file system, and access it as a second drive. To do this, I would urn fdisk off a bootable LiveCD with Linux. Both these have fdisk.
Smaller LiveCD designed for recover:
http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html
More generic, but easier to use, liveCD:
http://www.slax.org/
However, it probably isn't worth it. It's probably safer to keep the recovery parition, unless you plan on repartitioning the whole HD and starting form scratch anyways.
2006-12-07 21:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's most likely on a separate partition - you can use fdisk or a graphical program like PartitionMagic to view/delete/reformat that extra partition.
2006-12-07 21:06:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't recommend deleting anything in "Recovery", you might regret it later.
2006-12-07 21:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by Scooter_MacGyver 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋