I just deleted the system recovery partition from my HP DV8305 Laptop and during the process (after i started the pc recovery and when the actual program for deleting the partition was starting) I got a blue screen that said that Windows had encountered an "unrecoverable" error and had to restart. I could not get any more info from this screen because it flashed for about 5 seconds and then the computer restarted. When i booted it up the partition was gone from "My Computer" but the space it was using did not register as existing. I went into computer management (by right clicking my computer and clicking management) and saw that the Main partition (that is my C:\ drive) registered with the right size in the box below the list of partitions but the capacity still reads the same as before the deletion. I fear i may have to reformat the hard drive to make this space usable. Do anyone of you have suggestions on how i can fix this problem?
Running:
Windows XP SP2
80 GB hard drive, 12 GB Recovery partition, 60 GB C: (Main Partition)
the rest of the space is used for system stuff i guess (i.e. Operating System...)

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