New Laptop Hard Drive Space Lost?

[cnagra]

hi

jus brought a new vaio, it said it has 80gb of of space, but only has 67 showing, i noticed that there is a 8 gb recovery partition, is that really needed, i can free that space, but will the laptop still run smoothly, and boot up?...also using a program that shows where the hard drive is being used, it shows 2gigs of files on my C: drive, but there are no random files there, jus folders..any help?


thanks

[robpaxton]

Once you've created the recovery disk sets (3 copies is good for me) then you can delete the recovery partition and use the whole disk.

[cnagra]

hi

i have made my disks, can you tell me what program to use to delete the recovery part, and add it to my existing drives...thanks

[Thalamus.]

Hi cnagra,

Welcome to Club Vaio,

Here is the official Sony guide for removing the special recovery partition

Or you can use a program something like Partition Manager or Partition Magic

[cnagra]

hi

do u know any that are free?

thanks

[kee-lo_]

AFAIK there are no free partition managers who can do this, but I'd love to be proven wrong

[robpaxton]

The easiest way is to follow the Sony guide that Thalamus posted (backup your user files before you do the reinstall).

There is a free partition manager at http://www.ranish.com/part/ but I've never used it and it doesn't look too friendly

It's a good idea to backup your important files before using any partition editing tools.

[kee-lo_]

Not for the faint hearted that Rob