need help removing my recovery partition...

theReaper0908 · 11-22-2008, 04:16 AM

I recently reformatted my hdd and while in the process, I formatted my recovery partition on my hdd so I can free up space, but after I installed windows xp, the partition is still there. How can I delete it and merge it into my primary hdd so I can free up space?

dai · 11-22-2008, 04:28 AM

you will need to wipe the drive and start again
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://w...tKHMcX57GZrCPQ

theReaper0908 · 11-22-2008, 10:59 AM

hello Dai, thank you for responding to my posts in these forums.

When you said wipe the drive, you mean wipe the whole drive, or just the recovery partition? Because while researching for this solution myself before posting on here, I ran across a program name partition magic, but all those steps were a bit complicated, but that program looks like it will remove the partition without having to wipe the entire drive. Darn, if I will have to clean the whole drive again, then I'll just use that recovery partition to store my files cause I wiped that partition clean and there's nothing in there.

dai · 11-22-2008, 08:55 PM

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

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dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,184 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: need help removing my recovery partition... you will need to wipe the drive and start again http://www.google.com/url?q=http://w...tKHMcX57GZrCPQ __________________

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theReaper0908 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 352 OS: Win XP SP3, Vista SP1	Re: need help removing my recovery partition... hello Dai, thank you for responding to my posts in these forums. When you said wipe the drive, you mean wipe the whole drive, or just the recovery partition? Because while researching for this solution myself before posting on here, I ran across a program name partition magic, but all those steps were a bit complicated, but that program looks like it will remove the partition without having to wipe the entire drive. Darn, if I will have to clean the whole drive again, then I'll just use that recovery partition to store my files cause I wiped that partition clean and there's nothing in there. __________________ There are 10 types of people in this world, people who knows binary and people who don't.

11-22-2008, 08:55 PM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,184 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: need help removing my recovery partition... http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm __________________