removing created partition

Nancy636

I created a partition after receiving my W510 and when needed to recover my system, neither the drive or partition worked. I sent for recovery drive thru acer. I e need up going through process twice. The fist time I checked the box to remove the partition in the recovery. At the end of recovery, I thought all was well, then path was wrong, it had me start the 2 hour process again. This time I choose to leave partition and it is recovered to factory settings, but the partition is still there, it takes up, 13 GBs on a 64GB hard drive. Can I remove it some how? Does anyone know how to do this? 13 GBs are a lot on a W510. The recovery worked well this time and it runs so much faster. I think they may improved on Windows 8.1 or something, that's what gave me problems.

Ryanrr

Nancy626,

 

If I understand correctly, you are trying to remove the created recovery partition that we have installed on the system? We do not suggest removing this as it provides you with the ability to recover the system when you encounter a virus or corrupt operating system.

 

If you are adamant about removing this recovery partition, then you would have to completely format the HDD and then reinstall the operating system. Before you do this, I would suggest that you create a Windows 8 USB recovery drive so that you can reinstall the operating system.

 

Please review our article on Creating an Acer Factory Default Backup in Windows 8. If you watch the video, notice at about 0:35 it shows an option to copy the recovery partition so when you restore the system it will re-apply that drive to your recovered system. Since you do not want this drive on the computer, remove the check mark then continue with the process.

 

Another option is you can create two recovery USB drives; one without the recovery partition and another one with the partition. This would be helpful if you ever decide to resale the unit as it was from the factory.

Nancy636

I created it the partition, it is a Acer W510 tablet with 64GB, 30+ usable gb. This is the problem I have had since and I am frustrated.
II bought a Acer W510, which has no recovery partition! it did not have it on these 64gb models. I created on, put it on a flash drive. I tried to use it because my machine was really giving me problems. it did not work, so ordered a Recovery Drive from Acer. I started the process when I receive it, checked the box to remove the partition when it recovered, . in the end of process paths were wrong it said. Told me to start recovery again, left box unchecked to leave partition this time. recovery was done seemed great. then i realized I had only .99% of a gb left on hard drive. did process again next day, I could only figure that something in recovery took all my memory. So srated the recovery yet again.I tried to get rid of partition again, same results, path error ,did it once again to leave partition and this time I have 5gb space left. I have not messed with it since, I ordered a Surface pro. i would like to remove recovery partition to free up space, but have no idea why I have only 5 GB, i should have 30+ gb. I want to give it to my husband because it is an ok machine, it is not a power house but that is what desktops are for. I want to get rid of the recovery partition and get my memory back. I saw partition master product but I figure has to be a way with out spending a fortune. Getting tired of word recovery. Thanks for listening hope someone can help

Nancy636

Any more thoughts? Is ther a way to remove them, i have more that one because the Acer Recovery drive I bought put mor on every time I tried to recover, Hardly any memory left.  Please help if you can.

Ryanrr

The option I suggested earlier should have worked. Did you use a third party formatting/partition tool to remove all the partitions from your HDD?  If that is not workin, then you could try purchasing recovery media from us to restore you system. Before you use that media you would have to format your HDD with a third party partition tool to clear the HDD.