Delete Recovery Partition

I've tried looking around for how to do this but I haven't found anything specific for my problem.

I want to delete the 9.77GB Recovery Partition on my Acer Aspire 5536 laptop and it shows up in Computer Management but it is not labelled and the only right click option is "Help". It says that it is 100% free as well. I'm pretty sure the recovery partition is from Vista that came installed on the laptop when I got it but I've now upgraded it to Windows 7 so I don't think I need that recovery partition any more (I'd probably restore to Windows 7 and not Vista if I had to).

Does anyone know how I can do this? I'd like to be able to use that 9.77GB that seems to be doing nothing.

Screenshot for clarification: http://i53.tinypic.com/35n8upk.png

Thanks.

 

There is a software called Paragon Partition Manager with a very user friendly interface in which you can use to format that recovery partition of yours and then join both partitions into one partition. They have a free edition that will do just what you are looking forward to do.

Paragon Partition Manager Free Edition - Leading partitioning software! | PARAGON Software Group - free partition software, resize partition

Or you can use Windows 7 tool to do that:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition

 

Thanks, it worked great. The second link was what I was originally doing but as shown in the screenshot above, does not have any right-click options besides "Help".

 

I personally use GParted - same thing, but a bootable Linux Live USB.

 

Is it just me or has gparted gotten faster lately? I resized my partitions on the last three or so laptops I've owned, and it used to take hours to repartition even a new machine, and now when I run it it's done in minutes.