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To begin, open Disk Management and expand the Graphical View pane so
you can see all your drives.
In the case of the unwanted ???Recovery??? partition, start by right-clicking it in
Disk Management and selecting Delete Volume.
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You can??™t undo Delete Volume, so make sure you can live
without the ???Recovery??? partition before you proceed. In
most cases, it isn??™t necessary to keep this volume unless you
plan on wiping your hard disk and reinstalling Vista without
the original installation DVD. If you don??™t have a disc, check
with your PC??™s manufacturer to see whether they can provide
you with one.
Once the ???Recovery??? partition is gone, you??™ll have a swath of empty space
marked Unallocated at the end of your drive. (If it??™s at the beginning, you??™ll
need a tool like Disk Director, discussed in the next section.) Now all you
have to do is right-click your primary partition and select Extend Volume to
resize the remaining partition so that it consumes the unused space.
If you want to do the opposite??”that is, make room at the end of the disk for
a new partition??”just right-click the primary partition and select Shrink Volume.
After a bit of pondering, Disk Management will show the Shrink dialog
(Figure 5-16), which will probably show you less ???available shrink
space??? than you thought you had coming.
Say you have about 150 GB of data on your 500 GB drive, but the Shrink
window says you can only reclaim about 75 GB (7,500 MB) of free space.
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