Recovery partition removal on Samsung r70?

[dennis@home]

I want to remove the 10G recovery partition on my vista machine (I have an
install DVD which I have used to install vista so its a waste of space).
However disk manager wont let me do anything with it.
I can delete it in Ubuntu using parted but Vista doesn't see the free space.
I can reformat it at a new partition using NTFS in Ubuntu but then Vista
sees it as it did originally and wont let me do anything.
I don't want to reinstall if I can avoid it.
Any suggestions?

 

[FrobozzCo]

I want to remove the 10G recovery partition on my vista machine (I
have an install DVD which I have used to install vista so its a waste
of space). However disk manager wont let me do anything with it. I
can delete it in Ubuntu using parted but Vista doesn't see the free
space. I can reformat it at a new partition using NTFS in Ubuntu but
then Vista sees it as it did originally and wont let me do anything.
I don't want to reinstall if I can avoid it. Any suggestions?

I had a similar problem with an Acer laptop. I'd delete the recovery
partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned out Acer had
a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an attempt to protect
it.

I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was able
to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.

 

[dennis@home]

I had a similar problem with an Acer laptop. I'd delete the recovery
partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned out Acer had
a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an attempt to protect
it.

I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was able
to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.

Which utility did you use?
Its been a while since I had to fiddle with the MBR.

 

[FrobozzCo]

Which utility did you use?
Its been a while since I had to fiddle with the MBR.

I used a BootIT NG setup disk cause I use BootIT NG to dual boot my
desktop. <http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/>

I would suspect that the Vista bootrec utility would also do the job.
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392>

 

[dennis@home]

I used a BootIT NG setup disk cause I use BootIT NG to dual boot my
desktop. <http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/>

I would suspect that the Vista bootrec utility would also do the job.
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392>

Fixed it now.
There is a command line fdisk in vista that did the job.
diskpart.exe

 

[FrobozzCo]

dennis@home wrote:

Fixed it now.
There is a command line fdisk in vista that did the job.
diskpart.exe

Cool. I didn't know about the diskpart.exe utility.
Looks like diskpart would have done the job for me as well without the
need to resort to the BootIT NG tools.

 

[anthonyezra]

I'd delete the recovery partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned out Acer had a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an attempt to protect it. I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was able to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.