JerryM

You can download- BootIt NG,
that will let you use it for 30 days free!

You have to install it to do your partitioning,
and then remove it when you are finished.

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Jerry

One thing money can't buy,
The Wagging Tail of a Dog.

"Vol" <Vol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7B3AF81F-6104-4C17-BA06-86E22B03B962@microsoft.com...
> "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.