That HP_Recovery partition is likely where all the files are if you ever needed to 'Reinstall' back to factory condition. Messing with that will likely remove any option to do that.
In addition, I would suggest that "Backing up" to a partition on the same hard drive as where the OS is installed is not really a backup. If the drive fails, (they do), then you not only lose the OS but all of your backup files.
Much better to have a different backup plan where the files can be stored safely away from the computer.
Mark
So once September rolls around I'd have had this laptop for a year now. (link complete with system specs) From when I got this thing it's had 3 logical drives: primary one being Local Disk (C
of course. Then HP_RECOVERY (D
and HP_TOOLS (F![]()
The problem I have is that HP_RECOVERY is only 10GB large and I'll need, just maybe, a little more than that to backup all the system files. I got 160GB hardrive and currently the Local Disk has "45.2 GB free of 138 GB" I would like to know how I can make HP_RECOVERY larger without losing everything. Which would really suck since I can't actually back up much in the first place...oh and (D
is empty as possible right now.

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