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"dean-dean" wrote:

> You appear to be wanting to remove your OEM Recovery partition, and the area
> making it bootable. Is that what you want to do? Have you checked out the
> options in your OEM's Recovery Manager? You may be able to use that wizard
> to make restore DVD's, and then have the wizard remove the partition.

I think that summarizes it. It's a Dell PC that came with all sorts of
pre-installed junk. First thing I did was fully format the machine with a
fresh copy of Vista & then manually installed only the software I needed. I
only recently realized this extra partition was there & now I'm trying to
figure out how to get rid of it.

I'll try your method to see what happens, but I'm also interested in a
"freebie" partition manager if anyone can point me to a decent one.