matrix0978 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 whats up guys? man havent been here in a while,but here, my dad just bought a dell vostro that is running Vista Business, and for the partitions, it has Dell Utility, C:/OS, and the RECOVERY partition. I then made another partition for my dual-boot. But i'm looking at making a 5th partition by shrinking the big C:/ but it has a 4 primary partition limit.all in all, would it be okay to delete either the Dell Utility or the Recovery partition?thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 whats up guys? man havent been here in a while,but here, my dad just bought a dell vostro that is running Vista Business, and for the partitions, it has Dell Utility, C:/OS, and the RECOVERY partition. I then made another partition for my dual-boot. But i'm looking at making a 5th partition by shrinking the big C:/ but it has a 4 primary partition limit.all in all, would it be okay to delete either the Dell Utility or the Recovery partition?thanksHey matrix, welcome back! you could delete either of those partitions, the Dell utility partition holds the dell tools to reimage the machine if you needed to use your recovery CD, so if you don't mind the loss of that ability then yes, you can delete either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix0978 Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 whats does the RECOVERY partition actually save? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 whats does the RECOVERY partition actually save?most likely it is where they store the original WIM file that was used to image the PC at the factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeSkillz Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 whats up guys? man havent been here in a while,but here, my dad just bought a dell vostro that is running Vista Business, and for the partitions, it has Dell Utility, C:/OS, and the RECOVERY partition. I then made another partition for my dual-boot. But i'm looking at making a 5th partition by shrinking the big C:/ but it has a 4 primary partition limit.all in all, would it be okay to delete either the Dell Utility or the Recovery partition?thanksI would say that this is a very bad idea. On my Vista PC, the Recovery disk only uses 10 of the 250GB on my hard drive. Vista takes up a good number of gigs too, but I still say that approx. 200 GB is plenty for me, and it is really nice to have the Recovery, even if you don't think you'll use it. Heck, I would already have lost some major files if I hadn't made backups to the Recovery disk.You do know that you can install things to the Recovery disk, I do it all the time. There's really no need to delete it, and by not doing so you get the bonus that it can restore your computer if it gets messed up.Just as far as wondering if such a thing is possible, it is, but you have to reformat both hard disks in order to do it, and probably have to do some programming yourself.All in all, I'd say it's not worth it. Hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Unless you have physical recovery media, you should keep the recovery partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war59312 Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) Format and Reinstall Vista!! Those **** recovery disks and partitions are crap. They are filled with adware/spyare/trial crap.And God only knows what else. I've found porn on "new" laptops from Dell before. I've also found unauthorized (by me) software on "new" PCs, including pirated software, spyware, adware, fake VPN software, fake anti-virus, etc.Most likely though if you not buy a copy of Vista then you will need to. Most crappy a** companies (dell, gateway, etc.) do NOT include a copy with your PC.These s***ty companies get paid to include all this crapware (almost always including norton anti-virus) on your "new" PC.Not only is this crappy software a problem but many of the default settings (including security) are changed. For example your home page, search pages, etc. Back doors have been opened up by these crappy software so that they can function. For example many of them open up ports in the built in firewall. Email security settings have been relaxed along with UAC so that this crap can operate without promoting you about everything. Hackers/crackers know about all these default settings so makes it that much easier to get something bad on your PC.I highly highly recommend you format and start with a clean copy of Vista!!If you did this the day you got the PC its not that big of a deal since you got nothing important on it to lose and its really easy to do so. Just put in a vista cd and when it asks you where to install you simply format the drive and then install. That's it. 2 hours max (took 30mins to install on my ASUS laptop).Do a bit of google and your see how rampit this crap is. It's no joke. Edited March 5, 2008 by war59312 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix0978 Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 all i needed to do was to delete one partition. i kept the RECOVERY partition but deleted the dell utility partition and i made the new shared partition and works perfectly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grake Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Most likely though if you not buy a copy of Vista then you will need to. Most crappy a** companies (dell, gateway, etc.) do NOT include a copy with your PC.You seem angry at the world. Dell is the only company (Past 2004) includes CD's. Prior to 2004 they had the MRI (Media Reduction Initiative) running where they didn't send out CD's. Now you get it with the system, and you can call up at anytime even after the warranty expires you can get the CD's without a question. I can't say the same for Toshiba or HP in the year 2008 where DVD's cost a mere 20c. I asked for CD's they told me to burn the image using your own cd. You don't even get the OS CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phxwings Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 what i suggest : copy your system partition with ghost , after all the ghost image is smaller than dell's original recovery files . then delet the recovery partition and do whatever you what . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyAndyK Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 The recovery partitions can be quite useful, but true, they are filled with a lot of craplets and trialware. If you can use Acronis to create a backup image, only then should you consider deleting the recovery partition; in you can. You never know when you may have to fall back on such ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 can't you just FDISK the partition from DOS?that should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlice Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Why is this so complicate?This guy just want to remove his recovery partition!Just use the diskpart command to show all the partition from your hard drive.And then you will be able to locate which partition is the recovery partition.It is very easy.Plus, who is that guy to say that all OEM will have everything installed on the laptop is for fake and spy software.I really want to beat this guy with a bat! I work for OEM and as far as I can tell. Every big OEM I know don't have such software.This guy is just rookie and know nothing about the OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 (edited) If you want to remove the partition, I recommend you do so using diskpart and fdisk, for example. The only thing you are going to have to worry about is that the program that made the recovery partition writes to the MBR. Using either FDISK or DISKPART won't change the MBR but it still has that info in there. Its because of this that I tell our guys here to to use FDISK if they need to reimage a machine that has the recovery partition on it. We use the same software here as Dell to make recovery partitions. I wanted to add that the MBR will only cause you a problem because you can still hit whatever key at boot and it will try to boot to the partition that you removed. I don't know what Dell uses, F10 or something. Edited September 25, 2008 by Tripredacus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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