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Recovery hard drive q

  • 19-09-2006 9:05pm
    #1
    dajaffa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭


    Hey, just got a new laptop, HP nc8430. It has a recovery E drive which is 6gb in size. I burnt a recovery disc so is there anyway I can free up this drive for regular use.

    Thanks in advance for any assistance :)


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  • #2
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    You can delete the partition the recovery is on. Then repartition the free space it creates.

    Some info here. And this might be useful too.

    Just be sure you know what you're doing as you can really feck things up if it goes wrong. And make sure that you do have the recovery stuff backed up on CD in case you later need to reinstall XP or something.


  • #3
    dajaffa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭dajaffa


    Thanks IRL, will prob bookmark those pages until I need the extra space. Btw you are the best IT advice-person type ever, + I spent the summer workin in IT (shocking I know...)


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    actually make sure you have two copies of the recovery disks

    did you use a dual layer DVD ??
    otherwise the 6GB is holding more than one disk of data ..


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