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| Thread ID: 94984 | 2008-11-19 20:38:00 | Partition Merge | aidanmaz (7180) | Press F1 |
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| 721422 | 2008-11-19 20:38:00 | I want to remove the recovery partition (yes i know not recommended) and have one partition. Running Windows Vista Home Premium, How would I do this? | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 721423 | 2008-11-19 22:12:00 | You could try something like this (www.winvistaclub.com) BUT as it says on the bottom Most new computers with OEM Vista pre-installs come with 4 partitions. Hard disks configured as basic disks are limited to 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition and multiple logical drives. And as such, if you try to shrink the OS partition, you may find that you cannot create a 5th partition due to this limit. There could be two possible solutions for this issue: 1) As the disk pre-configured by OEM may have conflicts with disk management tool in Windows Vista, you should try some 3rd party tools like Auslogics Freeware Defrag, to repartition the disk. 2) You may try to delete a less important partition created already and merge the space together to create a new partition with proper drive letter. Deleting the partitions created by the OEM is often not possible due to the way the OEMs configure the partitions. Therefore the option then is to extend the operating system partition back to the original size to regain use of the unallocated space. If additional storage is needed, consider adding an external USB hard disk. |
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