How To Safely Remove Recovery Partition?

[alex96]

I recently installed Windows 7, but due to performance issues, I had to revert back to Vista. The F11 key was disabled because I upgraded, so I used a Vista Installer and inputed my serial code on my machine. Anyway, I created generic Recovery Discs, so I do not need my old unusable Recovery Partition any more. Is there any sort of way to safely remove it, and extend my C drive for more space?

BTW, I don't have HP Recovery Manager so, I cannot use the 'Delete Recovery Partition' feature on there.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello alex96.



In the Windows start menu right click computer and choose manage, in the left pane select disk management, in disk management if the "D: Recovery Partition" is directly to the right of the "C: System" partition you can use the tutorial at the link below to do what you want; please post back to keep us informed.
Be advised: once it's gone it's gone forever.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95418-disk-management-delete-extend.html?ltr=D


If it's not post a snip of disk management so we can see what you have.

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[alex96]

No matter which way I do it, it says it cannot delete a system partition.

What now?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Please post a complete snip of disk management so we can see what you have.