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[CrazyCanuck]

I have a Asus Laptop with a 500 gig drive and the brainiacs over there at Asus made the usable partition 150 gig and the back up and installation partition 350 gig.

I'm running out of space basically lol and was curious can I delete the back up drive to simply regain that space or will I need to do a reformat to get that 350 gig back?

[RacerBest]

Cant you install anything to the bigger drive?

My lapto had 70gb C drive too, and over 200gb D drive, it's a bit annoying because all installers wants to install to C drive but I just change it to D drive.

Mine is Asus too.

Edited by RacerBest, 20 January 2012 - 09:31 AM.

[datsun]

You should be able to go into drive manager and delete the backup partition then extend your main partition to whatever size you want/need.
My only issue would be is there important backup things on there like drivers specific to your laptop that you might need?
Might be worth trying to shrink backup partition then extend main if it lets you,

[ĸeval]

Yea, you can delete that partition, and extend any current partition.
Or just format it. It shouldn't affect your OS..its just that the factory default backup will be gone.

[Pollux]

there are some programs that can edit partitions, you should look around for those.
or you do what i did, and put all games, music and video's on the D drive as those take up the most space.

[House]

Download gparted live, burn it to a disk, and boot from it.

Using that you can view resize and modify partitions as necessary.

However, (I am going to assume you are a complete idiot for a second) don't delete the recovery drive.
Do that, and I am pretty sure it could either void your warranty, or at the very least, take away the opportunity to do an easy factory reset on the machine.

That being said, I would still safely allocate no less than 45 GB for the factory reset partition.

Better yet, I would download a copy of ShadowProtect 3.5.1 or 4.0.1 (I think it's 4.0.1, but I know 3.5.1 definitely works...) and boot that from a CD.
Take a backup of the factory partition, stick it on a external USB drive, and then use gparted to delete the factory partition, and fully resize the existing windows partition.

[AKO]

CrazyCanuck, on 20 January 2012 - 09:05 AM, said:

I'm running out of space basically lol and was curious can I delete the back up drive to simply regain that space or will I need to do a reformat to get that 350 gig back?

What the others said mainly. I tried to do what you're attempting with one of my comps, but the partitions turned out not to be continuous, so it was easier just reformatting. (Easier because I was putting Windows 8 on it.) Windows 8 has to ability to rearrange any partition, but for now you would have to use a third party program to move stuff around. Or reformat and have it fresh for your liking.

[RobVaivodiss]

I use EASEUS Partition Master, it's free, and it does everything from creating, merging, and deleting partitions. U might want to format the backup into the format of you regular drive then delete the partition.

Edited by RobVaivodiss, 20 January 2012 - 09:06 PM.

[datsun]

what version of windows are you on??
i ask cos windows 7 has a drive manager built in so you dont need and third party software