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    How to delete recovery partition?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Ramen Lunei, Oct 11, 2009.

  1. Ramen Lunei

    Ramen Lunei Notebook Enthusiast

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    How do I go about deleting the recovery partition? It has no letter drive and I can't do it through the disk management in the control panel..
     
    Ramen Lunei, Oct 11, 2009
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    lead_org Purveyor of Truth

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    which thinkpad are you trying to delete the recovery partition from?
     
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you do it from a bootable copy, your home free. Otherwise you'll have to dismount the target disk from the sytem and delete the partition. Oh yes to use the microsoft disk, the partitions must be contiguous.

    The best solution is to copy a free copy of Acronis disk manager and I think it will allow you to add to a partition which is ideal, is what I did to create some partitions. I think Diskpart.exe is the microsoft utility that you want.
    Renee
     
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    I just checked and diskpart.exe is the one.
    Renee
     
    Renee, Oct 11, 2009
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  5. Ramen Lunei

    Ramen Lunei Notebook Enthusiast

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    What do you mean by bootable copy?
    I'm gonna install Windows 7, but I want to delete the hidden recovery partition first.
    I'm trying to do this on a 160gb T500.
     
    Ramen Lunei, Oct 12, 2009
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