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partitioning harddrive

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narutofan36

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hi

I just purchased an aspire 3810t and im having a lot of trouble trying to delete the recovery partition.

Sounds simple but acer seems to have locked the option to delete it (so going into the disk management will not work) I also got a little hasty and installed 7 right away, and programs like paragon partition and partition magic will not work with windows 7.

Im so lost at what to do now.. 21 gb of free space after doing a fresh installation of 7 (80 gb ssd) just doesn't make any sense..
 
Create a windows pe boot cd and nuke it from there, or boot off of the win 7 install dvd and delete it there.
 
Or burn a gparted LiveCD and use that, although if disk management wouldn't let you delete it there might be important boot files on that partition.
 
Win7 creates a small(about 200mb if memory serves) partition for boot files. That can be worked around during install, but I haven't looked into it. I second Nothinman's suggestion for using Gparted. Wipe the drive, and start fresh.
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Win7 creates a small(about 200mb if memory serves) partition for boot files.
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You sure? That would be a change. That alternative space was reserved so that a disk could be added for dynamic disks.

 
Nuke it with DOS Fdisk.
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DOS fdisk gets confused fairly easily and it's likely simpler to burn a gparted LiveCD and use that than to make DOS disks and hope they see your drives.
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Originally posted by: gsellis
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Win7 creates a small(about 200mb if memory serves) partition for boot files.
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You sure? That would be a change. That alternative space was reserved so that a disk could be added for dynamic disks.
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See this thread from Overclockers forums...

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=605007
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Windows 7 creates a 100MB partition that is Primary and Active to boot from. Then the remaining disk space is partitioned as per the user...

To make sure I just checked in " Computer Management "

pcgeek11

 
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