Removing Recovery Partitions from Dell Laptop

Dave Cohen wrote:

I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7
and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted
the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is
Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing.

Which partition is marked as System?

Ed

"Dave Cohen" wrote in message
news:jts519$57h$

I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7
and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted
the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is
Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing.

The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with ATI
Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one partition, then
restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I was before the image,
except I had one larger partition instead of two.
SC Tom

SC Tom wrote:

"Dave Cohen" wrote in message
news:jts519$57h$

I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7
and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I deleted
the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop is
Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing.

The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with ATI
Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one partition,
then restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I was before the
image, except I had one larger partition instead of two.

And if that hadn't worked, then you could have booted from a Repair disk
and let it do its stuff.
Which would probably do the job for the OP in the situation he's got into.

Ed

"Ed Cryer" wrote in message
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SC Tom wrote:

"Dave Cohen" wrote in message
news:jts519$57h$

I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows 7
and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I
deleted
the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not boot. Laptop
is
Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I missing.

The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with ATI
Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one partition,
then restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I was before the
image, except I had one larger partition instead of two.

And if that hadn't worked, then you could have booted from a Repair disk
and let it do its stuff.
Which would probably do the job for the OP in the situation he's got into.

+1
SC Tom

On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:38:32 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:

SC Tom wrote:

"Dave Cohen" wrote in message
news:jts519$57h$

I copied boot and bootmgr from the Dell Recovery Partition to Windows
7 and set Windows 7 partition active. Machine booted ok, but when I
deleted the Recovery Partition and Dell Utility machine would not
boot. Laptop is Dell Studio 1555. I know people do this, what am I
missing.

The way I did it on my HP was to make an image of the C:\ drive with
ATI Home, format the whole hard drive, make the whole drive one
partition, then restore the image. Rebooted, and I was right where I
was before the image, except I had one larger partition instead of two.

And if that hadn't worked, then you could have booted from a Repair disk
and let it do its stuff.
Which would probably do the job for the OP in the situation he's got
into.

Ed

I did have to recover the system when it wouldn't boot, but the windows
restore cd recovers both the windows system and the two Dell partitions.
When you backup, the Recovery and Windows partitions are marked for backup
and greyed out, so you have to save both. To answer an earlier question, I
changed active partition from the Recovery to Windows.
A more serious problem is although Windows 7 and my Data partitions load
fine, I cannot install a side by side linux. Linux file system shows
everything, but gparted only shows an empty drive and claims the partition
table is invalid. My DellUtility is listed as DEh, I can't remember if
that is what it was originally, I have a feeling it was 0, but I'm not
sure.