Recovering Recovery Partition

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Howdy good folks,

I've recently upgraded my HP G72 laptop from W7 to W10 and have decided I like the new OS enough to keep it. The hard drive on the laprop contains two small partitions (D:\ and E:\) the first of which is the W7 recovery partition and I'd like to recover the 12.6GB this takes up, if possible. E:\ has some HP Tools which I don't use but it only occupies 99MB so I may well leave it alone. All three partitions show as Basic volumes.

My questions are:
on the basis I'm never going back to W7 is there any point in keeping the recovery partition?
what is the correct procedure for incorporating the recovery partition into the main C:\ drive

I've looked at the MS help files on this subject but they appear to have been written by Vulcans for Klingons and my universal translator obviously isn't tuned to those languages :)

TIA
 
the HP recovery partition will only recover it to W7 so entirely your choice to keep it.

you can delete the unwanted partitions using disk manager and then right click the C: drive and extend it into the empty space.
 
I don't know the answer to this but what happens when you need to do a clean install of Windows 10? I am assuming you have upgraded online so don't have any disks.
 
neil_g said:
the HP recovery partition will only recover it to W7 so entirely your choice to keep it.

you can delete the unwanted partitions using disk manager and then right click the C: drive and extend it into the empty space.
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Thanks Neil. I was hoping it would be that simple :)
 
sphexx said:
I don't know the answer to this but what happens when you need to do a clean install of Windows 10? I am assuming you have upgraded online so don't have any disks.
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I have a USB stick with the W10 ISO on so can do re-installs of W10 okay. I did do the on-line upgrade to get a licence key but then used he ISO to do a clean install.
 
Bristolian said:
I have a USB stick with the W10 ISO on so can do re-installs of W10 okay. I did do the on-line upgrade to get a licence key but then used he ISO to do a clean install.
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Thanks for the info!
 
Cheers for the info guys .... job done!
 
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