Can I remove my recovery partition?

[ItzEvolv]

Hey everybody,

Got a beginner question.

I got a Toshiba Satalite laptop with pre-installed Windows 8. I want to create a new partition but I already have 5 partitions on my HDD.


Here is a picture:

I tried right clicking on these partitions, but I get no more options then "Help".

Can I remove this on some way and is it okay to do this?

Help would be appreciated!!

 

[viewtyjoe]

Removing a recovery partition is a good way to completely void your warranty with the manufacturer. If you need an extra partition, shrink one of the non-recovery partitions and allocate a new one.

 

[VincentP]

The drive is fully utilized.
If you could delete a partition, all this would allow you to do is create another partition of the same size.
The 100MB partition was created by the Windows installation and is required.
The 1GB and 11.58GB partitions I'm not sure about, but if one of these is a Toshiba recover partition you should keep it.
All three of these are so small anyway that you gain very little if you were able to re-use this space.

 

[ItzEvolv]

Removing a recovery partition is a good way to completely void your warranty with the manufacturer. If you need an extra partition, shrink one of the non-recovery partitions and allocate a new one.

Thanks for replying, I would not be able to do this since you can only have 5 partitions max, right? Also, I want to create another 30 GB partition. Can't I shrink the 800 GB partition and create a 30 GB one without deleting another now?

 

[VincentP]

Removing a recovery partition is a good way to completely void your warranty with the manufacturer. If you need an extra partition, shrink one of the non-recovery partitions and allocate a new one.

Thanks for replying, I would not be able to do this since you can only have 5 partitions max, right? Also, I want to create another 30 GB partition. Can't I shrink the 800 GB partition and create a 30 GB one without deleting another now?

You can have up to 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions and as many logical partitions as you like.
Why do you want another partition?

 

[viewtyjoe]

Removing a recovery partition is a good way to completely void your warranty with the manufacturer. If you need an extra partition, shrink one of the non-recovery partitions and allocate a new one.

Thanks for replying, I would not be able to do this since you can only have 5 partitions max, right? Also, I want to create another 30 GB partition. Can't I shrink the 800 GB partition and create a 30 GB one without deleting another now?

If you can't do it via disk management, you can always command line it or go through powershell or something. Worst comes to worst, you can't and you just re-expand the volume you shrank off of.

 

[ItzEvolv]

Removing a recovery partition is a good way to completely void your warranty with the manufacturer. If you need an extra partition, shrink one of the non-recovery partitions and allocate a new one.

Thanks for replying, I would not be able to do this since you can only have 5 partitions max, right? Also, I want to create another 30 GB partition. Can't I shrink the 800 GB partition and create a 30 GB one without deleting another now?

You can have up to 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions and as many logical partitions as you like.
Why do you want another partition?

I would like to have another partition to install Ubuntu on.

 

[VincentP]

Z: drive is a primary partition and it is 100GB.
Is this identified as a recovery patition?
If not, you should be able to move any data off this partition and install Ubuntu there. This install should give you the option of replacing the partition with EXT3 or something similar.