New HP Laptop with Recovery partition

[Terence]

On 12/01/07, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>

> But here's a weird part.  It comes with a great feature, a recovery partition,
> so I don't even need DVD's to recover!!
> Except that the frickin' thing is 10GB in size.  Now I realize that megs are
> cheap these days, but GIGs ain't <in the best drawl a Michigander can muster>
>
> I've already gone through the initial "Create Recovery Discs" process (3
> DVDs), and would like to free up that huge partition.

> Should I *not* wipe it?  80GB isn't that big when you chunk out 15GB for
> windows and 10GB for the stupid recovery partition (and it's full up at like
> 9.76GB)


FWIW my son has just bought a Pavilion (sounds like the same model
from the spec), and in the docs it said that the recovery partition
can be removed once the recovery DVDs have been burned (AND checked!).
We burned the discs, and I used a GParted cd to check the hard drive
and partitions.

I then removed the recovery partition and re-partitioned to give a
dual boot capability with OpenSUSE 10.2.

My son has not yet had to use the recovery DVDs, but a quick and
incomplete check showed them to boot OK.

HTH

Terence