Recovery partition removal on Samsung r70?

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dennis@home

I want to remove the 10G recovery partition on my vista machine (I have an
install DVD which I have used to install vista so its a waste of space).
However disk manager wont let me do anything with it.
I can delete it in Ubuntu using parted but Vista doesn't see the free space.
I can reformat it at a new partition using NTFS in Ubuntu but then Vista
sees it as it did originally and wont let me do anything.
I don't want to reinstall if I can avoid it.
Any suggestions?
 
dennis@home said:
I want to remove the 10G recovery partition on my vista machine (I
have an install DVD which I have used to install vista so its a waste
of space). However disk manager wont let me do anything with it. I
can delete it in Ubuntu using parted but Vista doesn't see the free
space. I can reformat it at a new partition using NTFS in Ubuntu but
then Vista sees it as it did originally and wont let me do anything.
I don't want to reinstall if I can avoid it. Any suggestions?
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I had a similar problem with an Acer laptop. I'd delete the recovery
partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned out Acer had
a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an attempt to protect
it.

I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was able
to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.
 
FrobozzCo said:
I had a similar problem with an Acer laptop. I'd delete the recovery
partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned out Acer had
a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an attempt to protect
it.

I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was able
to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.
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Which utility did you use?
Its been a while since I had to fiddle with the MBR.
 
dennis@home wrote:

Fixed it now.
There is a command line fdisk in vista that did the job.
diskpart.exe
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Cool. I didn't know about the diskpart.exe utility.
Looks like diskpart would have done the job for me as well without the
need to resort to the BootIT NG tools.
 
I'd delete the recovery partition but it would come back on the next boot. Turned out Acer had a special MBR that was restoring the partition in an attempt to protect it. I used a disk repair utility to repair the MBR. After that I was able to delete the recovery partition and use the extra space.
 
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