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.