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Larry
Hello,
I have a Vaio with Vista that I just spent about 10 hours or so cleaning up
crapware, etc. from. Now, Sony has a hidden 8GB recovery partition that I
very much would like to reclaim. So I deleted the recovery partition using
diskpart. Next I went on to try to expand/extend the primary partition, but
that option is not available from the GUI and diskpart does not allow it
either.
I believe this is because the now deleted recovery partition was the first
partition and the primary partition is on offset 8GB. In other words, the
now unallocated space is not located after the primary partition.
Next I tried to make a "Complete System Backup" to a USB drive and then
delete the primary partition and create a new partition covering the full
disk. But when I use the recovery DVD to restore the complete system
backup, it also restores partition information, etc. so I am back to still
not having a the first 8GB as part of the primary partition.
Is there any tool out there that safely can expand a partition in Vista
under these circumstances? Or a tool that makes a full system backup
without requiring the same partition layout when restoring?
Thanks,
Larry
I have a Vaio with Vista that I just spent about 10 hours or so cleaning up
crapware, etc. from. Now, Sony has a hidden 8GB recovery partition that I
very much would like to reclaim. So I deleted the recovery partition using
diskpart. Next I went on to try to expand/extend the primary partition, but
that option is not available from the GUI and diskpart does not allow it
either.
I believe this is because the now deleted recovery partition was the first
partition and the primary partition is on offset 8GB. In other words, the
now unallocated space is not located after the primary partition.
Next I tried to make a "Complete System Backup" to a USB drive and then
delete the primary partition and create a new partition covering the full
disk. But when I use the recovery DVD to restore the complete system
backup, it also restores partition information, etc. so I am back to still
not having a the first 8GB as part of the primary partition.
Is there any tool out there that safely can expand a partition in Vista
under these circumstances? Or a tool that makes a full system backup
without requiring the same partition layout when restoring?
Thanks,
Larry