How to Get Rid of Recovery Partition on Hard Drive?

J

John E. Golden

Hello,

I have XP Home Edition om my Compaq Desktop.

I stupidly installed Partition Magic 6.0 and Boot Magic 6.0 on my computer
not realizing that it was not appropriate for Windows XP. My computer came
without a Windows XP CD and without Recovery Disks. However, it has a
'Recovery Partition' on the Hard Drive.

I just burned Seven Recovery CD's in case I should ever need them.

Is there a way for me to get rid of the Recovery Partition on my Hard Drive
without buying more software?

I would like to install a "dual boot" system with Windows XP Home and Linux
Mandrake.


Regards,
John E. Golden
 
R

Richard Urban

Unless you have a retail version of Windows XP, I would not recommend
dumping the recovery partition!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :)
 

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