Delete Recovery Partition

[evoGage]

Hi,

I own a FZ21E and made a sets of recovery disc from the recovery center. It states that once I made a set of recovery discs that I could then delete the recovery partition to gain extra storage. I've checked out some guides posted here where you press F10 and then go to custom restore or something along those line but it doesn't seem to apply to me as theres not custom restore when I boot from the recovery disc.

So does anyone know how to deal with deleting the recovery partition?

Thanks

[evoGage]

Anyone?

[JonnyThunder]

On my recovery disk, you choose the bottom option (VAIO recovery or something like that). It takes you to the VAIO tools, then you choose complete disk recovery. It then shows u a screen suggesting to do a C: drive recovery or whatever and at the bottom of the screen I think it says Skip or something. U get the option after that, to use the whole harddisk. It doesn't actually do this, it still creates a 2gb partition - but I can tell you that mine did run better after I did this. Probably coincidence tho.

Hope that helps.

[helloimgeoff1]

This is probably a long way around, but when I played with Ubuntu from a flash drive on my FZ21Z, it gave me the option to play with the partitions how ever I wanted, I could make the whole disk into 1 partition, or split it up into 300 little 1gb partitions if I really wanted to.

Although you can do the same when running the recovery disks, I'm not sure if you can completly remove the recovery partition doing that though.

Hope this helps.

[evoGage]

On my recovery disk, you choose the bottom option (VAIO recovery or something like that).  It takes you to the VAIO tools, then you choose complete disk recovery.  It then shows u a screen suggesting to do a C: drive recovery or whatever and at the bottom of the screen I think it says Skip or something.  U get the option after that, to use the whole harddisk.  It doesn't actually do this, it still creates a 2gb partition - but I can tell you that mine did run better after I did this.  Probably coincidence tho.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the help but will this restore everything back to original because I dont want it to but instead just delete the recovery partition and keep my current setting.

[JonnyThunder]

That will restore everything (including your settings and files) to default. if you need to delete the partition another way, you could use something like Partition magic, which can reallocate deleted partitions to existing drives.

[evoGage]

Oh right, I guess I need to look into partition software.

[Nobody-in-particular]

What if you have a CD/DVD drive problem or you loose your recovery disc's?

If you remove the recovery partition then you wouldn't be able to restore your Vaio!

[JonnyThunder]

If you've made recovery disks (a couple of copies) it doesn't matter whether you remove the recovery partition. You can still restore completely from the disks. The recovery partition gives the ability to do this without the need for disks - but isn't really required provided you've made good working copies of your disks.

[evoGage]

Yep, thats why I want to delete the recvery partition to gain extra space.