partition

[Guest]

i have a hp pavilion dv2000 with xp on it, i found out i have a 10gb recovery
partition, i went through the administration tools in control panel and used
computer management then disk managment. i right-click on the recovery
partition and click delete. the partition disappeared and i restarted the
computer to find that the partition had vanished but i did not get the
partition memory to use for my self. i look at the capacity of the hard drive
and it shows 74gb, but i shows the total size of 64gb, which excludes my
partition which has disappeared. i would like to find out how to recover that
unused space for myself. i do not want to reformat my hard drive as that will
cost me $AU100. thanks for any help.

 

[DL]

You either create a new partition with the free space, using the tools in
Disk Management, or you use a third party tool, eg Partition Magic to expand
your existing partition. You cannot do this in Win.

Having deleted the recovery partition I hope you have recovery disks.
Why should it cost you to format your drive, unless of course you have no
recovery disks?

 

[peter]

you do realise that the "recovery partition" that you deleted held every
program that you purchased with the machine including the operating system??
I do hope that you have some sort of recovery option in case your XP
crashes...Like a complete image of the HD...another copy of XP on a CD??
peter

 

[Guest]

thanks, it costs me to reformat cause i have to send it to a computer tech
cause i dont know how to do it. i will try partition magic, thanks for the
help.

 

[DL]

If you have the recovery disks you look online on HP site for the recovery
procedures

 

[Guest]

dont worry people, i just created a new partition with the unallocated space
in disk managment.