I have an Asus 1810TZwith a 160 GB HDD running Win7 Home 64.
Disk Manager shows 3 partitions on the HDD:
* The 100 MB System Partition (some 72% free)
* A 12 GB Recovery Partition with 100% free
* A 137 GB C: drive with 80% free
(For the record, I have used Acer's eRecovery program to burn recovery DVDs for system and drivers).
I have been under the impression that the (12 GB) recovery partition contains the information the user needs to burn recovery DVDs but this does not appear to be the case as my partition is 100% free.
If there's nothing in this partition, what is it's purpose?
Is this some space Win 7 creates and reserves for the purpose of creating restore points?
If I don't intend to enable the Win7 restore function, can I delete this partition and free up the 12 GB for usage?
(I'm going to install Ubuntu for dual doot and would like to slim Win 7 and it's HDD usage as much as possible).
Grateful for any explaination the community can give.
Cheers
H.
Disk Manager shows 3 partitions on the HDD:
* The 100 MB System Partition (some 72% free)
* A 12 GB Recovery Partition with 100% free
* A 137 GB C: drive with 80% free
(For the record, I have used Acer's eRecovery program to burn recovery DVDs for system and drivers).
I have been under the impression that the (12 GB) recovery partition contains the information the user needs to burn recovery DVDs but this does not appear to be the case as my partition is 100% free.
If there's nothing in this partition, what is it's purpose?
Is this some space Win 7 creates and reserves for the purpose of creating restore points?
If I don't intend to enable the Win7 restore function, can I delete this partition and free up the 12 GB for usage?
(I'm going to install Ubuntu for dual doot and would like to slim Win 7 and it's HDD usage as much as possible).
Grateful for any explaination the community can give.
Cheers
H.