removing a recovery partition

[Derick Beckwith]

My HP mce PC came with a hidden recovery partition (D. I have made
recovery DVDs and verified they can restore the system and now want to
remove the partition. Any ideas?

Can I make a boot CD that uses fdisk.exe? I read somwhere that fdisk cannot
be used on an NTFS formatted partition. I could not find any specific
instructions on this on hp.com. I have already deleted the partition's data
and formatted it using diskmgmt.msc but what I want to do is completely
remove the partition, convert it from FAT32 to NTFS and make it part of the
C: drive. (kind of like it would have been if HP just shipped the system
with recovery disks and skipped the whole hidden partition thing!)

Thanks in advance,
Derick

 

[Guest]

Wise choice,windows cant help w/o going to recovery,select 1 for disk C:
press enter for password,typeiskPart In DiskPart,delete all partitions one
at a time,create one,press ESC key,type:EXIT Now boot to xp cd,install xp,
new installation,let xp format the entire hd and install xp auto.Thier are
3rd
party disk software that can combine all w/o loosing xp,but thats another
reply...

 

[DL]

You will need third party software, eg Partition Magic, Win cannot do it.
PS If you ever have to restore you 'may' finish up with two partitions

 

[Derick Beckwith]

I found a very sparsely documented solution to this called the "HP Recovery
Tool CD" that is designed to remove the recovery partition and merge the
space with the windows partition (C: in my case) It worked great and now I
can use my whole hard drive I paid for, yippee!