Vista - vista basic sp1 - recovery disc

I have lenovo with vista home basic sp1 and they don't give me the recovery
disk and gives the option one key recovery ( not so good ), and i am using
dual booting with linux, when i want to remove the linux it asks for recovery
disk to clean the boot sector, -- so please help me how to get recovery disk
from vista sp1 and also help how to increase the size of the primary
partition i.e C it is only 30 Gb, for me it is too low.

Hello raja,

You don't specify the model you have , so it is difficult to be precise. Oem manufacturers usually divide the hard drive between a C partition - for Vista and you to use, and at least one more partition ( sometimes called D - sometimes "hidden", i.e. without a drive letter ) - for recovery purposes.

Therefore the amount of space for you to use is limited. 30gb does seem small - is that the total size of C, or the space left on it?

Do not be tempted to remove, or tamper with the recovery partition - from the Lenovo website , I found this

Lenovo Support

To increase the space on the C partition, it is best to move data you don't need to access regularly, e.g. video and music files , onto a separate hd - you can get ones that plug into your usb port.

If you have a thinkpad, there seems to be a way of creating a recovery disc,

Pre-Installation steps - ThinkWiki

And similar for 3000 laptop and R51

CodeProject: Lenovo 3000 N100 Laptop. Free source code and programming help

Charles Curley - Software Engineer, Writer - Linux on Lenovo R51

However I believe they just reset your entire machine back to it's factory settings.

You may like to try this

Create a Recovery Disc

Hope that helps

SIW2