Can I delete the healthy (recovery partition)?

[RN09]

I am not sure if this is right forum.

I go into Computer - Manage - Disk Management, right click and it shows no option to delete, only "help".

I clone the whole hard drive once in awhile and don't want it neither in my computer nor clone hard drive.

Windows 7 Home Prem. notebook.

Thanks

 

[zigzag3143]

I am not sure if this is right forum.

I go into Computer - Manage - Disk Management, right click and it shows no option to delete, only "help".

I clone the whole hard drive once in awhile and don't want it neither in my computer nor clone hard drive.

Windows 7 Home Prem. notebook.

Thanks

Is it an OS partition? if so the only way is to do it outside of the OS with a 3rd party app like parigon disk management

 

[theog]

I am not sure if this is right forum.

I go into Computer - Manage - Disk Management, right click and it shows no option to delete, only "help".

I clone the whole hard drive once in awhile and don't want it neither in my computer nor clone hard drive.

Windows 7 Home Prem. notebook.

Thanks

Have you made your notebook Recovery DVD's?

 

[TGSoldier]

Yes you can delete it.

 

[Muad Dib]

A screenshot of the Disk Management Window might help.

The boot files might be located in the partition. and would need to be re-located. EasyBCD might provide a clue....

 

[gregrocker]

As requested, please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Management drive map, using Snipping tool in Start Menu, attach file using paper clip in reply box.

Tell us exactly what you want to achieve and we will give you the steps.

You can delete the Recovery partition if you need the space and have made the backup disks.

 

[RN09]

No, I don't make the recovery dvd. I like to clone the whole hard drive using acronis to external hard drive. I find it is easy for me later so I just swap the hard drive.

This is the new laptop with 250gb hard drive. I want to remove the partition on top (12.0 GB) and bottom (SYSTEM RESERVED - 102 MB)

 

[whs]

Even with cloning the drive, it may be useful to burn the recovery dvds from the recovery partition before you delete it. This is just an extra security. You never know whether your clone/image will work. As to the little 100 MB partition, I would leave it alone. There is nothing to be gained.

 

[RN09]

Can anyone walk me through how to delete it? I want to get the 12 GB seems nothing in there.

Thanks

 

[theog]

Try this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3741-hard-disk-partition-letter-missing-windows-7-fix.html

 

[Jonathan_King]

If you really want to delete that partition, see this thread: http://www.sevenforums.com/general-...tition-no-re-install-needed-3.html#post588327

To delete the partition in Diskpart, boot from the installation/repair disc and press Shift+F10 on the language screen.

Enter the following:

diskpart
list disk
select disk [whatever the disk number is]
list partition
select partition [100mb partition #]
delete partition override

Then mark the main OS partition as active: http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/34853-common-installation-problems.html

Then run a Startup Repair: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

 

[theog]

I would advice to only delete the 12gb partition, leave 100mb in place.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Don't worry Theog, the 100MB system partition is safe to remove.

 

[theog]

Don't worry Theog, the 100MB system partition is safe to remove.

Best left in place, if you do delete, make sure you create a repair disc.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html?ltr=S

 

[Jonathan_King]

Definitely create the repair disc first. Your installation DVD will also work.

You actually need the repair disc/installation dvd to delete the partition, so that will not be hard to remember.

 

[RN09]

The laptop come with pre-install OS but no cd. I want to delete the 12GB.

I manage to use partition wizard to move the 12GB position. Before it was 12GB - 102MB - 220GB.

Now 102MB - 12GB - 220GB, but only if I can more the 12B to the right so I can delete it and extend 220GB. The problem is I can't move it.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Use Partition Wizard if you want to move the partition.

If you want to delete it, select it in Diskpart (like explained above) and type delete partition override.

 

[theog]

Do this:

 

[gregrocker]

You say you want to delete the Recovery and System Reserved partitions and recover the space into Win7.

You will also need to recover the MBR and active flag into Win7. Back up your files and make a Win7 Repair CD if you don't have an installation DVD.

Boot Partition Wizard CD, select 1 for screen resolution, right click partitions which you want delete and choose Delete, OK.

Now rightclick Win7 partition>Modify>Set to Active, OK.

Again rightclick Win7 partition>Resize>slide left grey border to the left over all of the deleted space, OK, Apply all steps.

Now Win7 will not boot. Instead, boot Win7 Repair CD or DVD Repair console, click through to Recovery Tools list to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots to write MBR to Win7 partition. You can also use Rebuild MBR on Partition Wizard Disk tab to do this.

Save a Win7 backup image externally so you never have to reinstall Win7 again, just reimage the HD using Repair CD and your image in 15 minutes.

 

[RN09]

You say you want to delete the Recovery and System Reserved partitions and recover the space into Win7.

You will also need to recover the MBR and active flag into Win7. Back up your files and make a Win7 Repair CD if you don't have an installation DVD.

Boot Partition Wizard CD, select 1 for screen resolution, right click partitions which you want delete and choose Delete, OK.

Now rightclick Win7 partition>Modify>Set to Active, OK.

Again rightclick Win7 partition>Resize>slide left grey border to the left over all of the deleted space, OK, Apply all steps.

Now Win7 will not boot. Instead, boot Win7 Repair CD or DVD Repair console, click through to Recovery Tools list to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots to write MBR to Win7 partition. You can also use Rebuild MBR on Partition Wizard Disk tab to do this.

Save a Win7 backup image externally so you never have to reinstall Win7 again, just reimage the HD using Repair CD and your image in 15 minutes.

Thanks. Followed this and I could delete them. I downloaded iso OS from digitalriver link to use to repair tool.



The reason I like to clone HD because if computer crashed, I can clone back WITHOUT install whole bunches of software.

Question: If i make a back up image dvd, can I use it in the future in case the computer crashed without install softwares or I have to re install everything again?

Sorry for a dumb question. Just try to learn new things from experts.