Resizing partitions

[captain zed]

Hi folks,
I have a quick question for ya's....my laptop came with a HDD with 2 partition's. One is 1.46Gb and the other is 287Gb. Any ideas's as to what the little partition is for ??
The reason i ask is, cos i want to get moving with Windows 7 and wanted to make a partition just for this purpose. If the smaller partition is not for anything in particular, then i could just make it bigger and hopefully save on time and effort. I have already tried to make an extra partiton this evening but for some reason it doesn't seem to want to work for me.
I have made a back up earlier today to an external HD.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Zzzzz

 

[Madxgraphics]

That small partition is the Vista Recovery Partition....Unfortunately you can't get rid of it. Even with a complete reformat. You need to goto the laptop manufaturer website on instructions of removing it...

 

[captain zed]

Thanks MadX.
Will try partitioning again in a bit. Was out looking for meteor's. No sign of anything though.

Zzzzz