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My laptop has a manufacturer recovery partition. I had an image of this partition. I am wanting to delete it and expand the C partition to the entire drive. How difficult would it be to restore the the recovery partition and then use the partition to restore the C drive, if I decide to get rid of the computer one day? I will probably run DBAN or some other eraser program before restoring to make sure that my data can't be recovered.

I assume that all I will need to do is restore the Recovery partition and run that and it will partition the drive and restore the C partition and all the pre-installed software. The startup screen says to hit F11 to start Recovery. I have never tried this, but I assume it works. Is it really as simple as I think it is? Thanks.

I am currently using Win 8.1 Pro 64. To delete the partition, can I just right-click on the partition (drive management) and select delete. Then slide the C partition to the unused portion of the drive so that the C partition takes up the whole drive. It sounds simple...am I making it more simple than it really is?

Update - I tried to access recovery manager via F11 and got no response. I am assuming this is because I no longer have the original OS installed. I do have an image of the recovery partition made a few yrs. ago and have several images of the C drive with original OS. I assume that I would be able to wipe drive and use IFL to restore recovery partition and one of the C partition images, then recovery manager will work...but who knows. Odds are I will never do this. I went ahead and deleted the recovery partition - Disk Management > Right-clicked on partition > Delete. I then right-clicked on C partition and selected Expand and chose max size. I now appear to have one partition using the entire drive space.

Btw, I was using TrueCrypt on C partition only. I did decrypt the partition before trying the recovery manager. After I deleted the recovery partition and expanded the C partition, I encrypted the drive again; this time using Whole Drive encryption. Thank you TBI for including TC in IFL. Please don't ever remove it. This is the only imaging software I know that allows the ability to mount drive before imaging so that we only have to image used space. Thanks!

If you ever restored an image it might have messed up getting to the
recovery partition.

I cannot access the one I left on my laptop either.
Mary

On 2/17/2014 8:34 PM, tbifan39 wrote:
> Update - I tried to access recovery manager via F11 and got no response. I am assuming this is because I no longer have the original OS installed. I do have an image of the recovery partition made a few yrs. ago and have several images of the C drive with original OS. I assume that I would be able to wipe drive and use IFL to restore recovery partition and one of the C partition images, then recovery manager will work...but who knows. Odds are I will never do this. I went ahead and deleted the recovery partition - Disk Management > Right-clicked on partition > Delete. I then right-clicked on C partition and selected Expand and chose max size. I now appear to have one partition using the entire drive space.
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> Btw, I was using TrueCrypt on C partition only. I did decrypt the partition before trying the recovery manager. After I deleted the recovery partition and expanded the C partition, I encrypted the drive again; this time using Whole Drive encryption. Thank you TBI for including TC in IFL. Please don't ever remove it. This is the only imaging software I know that allows the ability to mount drive before imaging so that we only have to image used space. Thanks!
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typically you can also just boot those partitions... maybe require changing
the file system id.

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Update - I tried to access recovery manager via F11 and got no response. I
am assuming this is because I no longer have the original OS installed. I do
have an image of the recovery partition made a few yrs. ago and have several
images of the C drive with original OS. I assume that I would be able to
wipe drive and use IFL to restore recovery partition and one of the C
partition images, then recovery manager will work...but who knows. Odds are
I will never do this. I went ahead and deleted the recovery partition - Disk
Management > Right-clicked on partition > Delete. I then right-clicked on C
partition and selected Expand and chose max size. I now appear to have one
partition using the entire drive space.

Btw, I was using TrueCrypt on C partition only. I did decrypt the partition
before trying the recovery manager. After I deleted the recovery partition
and expanded the C partition, I encrypted the drive again; this time using
Whole Drive encryption. Thank you TBI for including TC in IFL. Please don't
ever remove it. This is the only imaging software I know that allows the
ability to mount drive before imaging so that we only have to image used
space. Thanks!