I am running out of disk space and want to know if there is a way to use a partition software like powerquest partition magic to remove the hp recovery partition and transfer the space to my real hard drive
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Jump to PostYou would be better served to add another hard drive to your system. A 40Gb or 80Gb drive can be obtained for a surprisingly low price nowadays.
Jump to PostThe trick is to change the hidden recovery partition's type code to make it "visible", and then use a partition manager such as Partition Magic to merge the space into your system drive. There are a few ways to do this, including using some freely available Linux utilities; there are …
Jump to PostYou probably don't want to do that, anyways.
How much space are we talking here? I know that Dell uses a very small (under 50MB) partition for diagnostics and utilities, but I don't know how big HP's partition is.
Knowing how HP likes to work, I wouldn't delete …
Jump to PostNormally I would agree with you Alex, but get this- the size of HP's recovery partition can be on the order of GigaBytes these days. I know that a lot of vendors have found that to be a cheap and easy way of giving customers some sort of a recovery …
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