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it is taking up like 7-8gb in win7 on my netbook and I dont want it.

fdisk does nothing..

Greg

Go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management. Right click on the OEM partition, and delete it. Then right click on your Windows partition, hit Extend Volume, and it will make the main partition take up the empty space. Of course, that does get rid of your recovery partition, so make sure that you have restore discs burned. Or something.

The Extend Volume command will only work if the empty space is located after the partition you want to expand. If the empty space is before it you'll need a partitioning utility like the free Easeus Partition manager: http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

DO NOT use Partition Magic. It's obsolete and does not properly support Win7 partitions.

Very good point, FP, thanks for bringing it up. Totally forgot about that >.>

As for Partition Magic, I had to learn that one the hard way back in the 'Vista' days. "Drive is empty! Wanna format?" kull

I cant right click on it, well i can right click on it but all it offers is "help". So do I need that software?

Greg

well, I deleated it with this info:

Here’s the trick to delete and remove the EISA recovery or diagnostic partition in Vista. Before proceeding with the deletion action, make sure that at least a set of Recovery Disc Media has been created. Else, you won’t be able to restore your computer to working and factory default condition when any problem on PC requires reinstallation.

1. Open a command prompt as administrator.
2. Run Diskpart application by typing Diskpart in the command prompt.
3. In the “Diskpart” prompt, enter rescan command and press Enter key to re-scan all partitions, volumes and drives available.
4. Then type in list disk and press Enter key to show all hard disk drive available.
5. Select the disk that contains the partition you want to remove. Normally, with just 1 hard disk, it will be disk 0. So the command will be:

select disk 0

Finish by Enter key.
6. Type list partition and press Enter key to show all available and created partition in the disk selected.
7. Select the partition that wanted to be deleted by using the following command, followed by Enter key:

select partition x

where x is the number of the EISA based recovery partition to be removed and unlocked its space. Be careful with the number of this partition, as wrong number may get data wipes off.
8. Finally, type in delete partition override and press Enter key.

Once the partition has been deleted, exit from Diskpart, and now users can use the much familiar and much easier Disk Management tool in Windows (diskmgmt.msc) to manipulate the freed unallocated partition. Users can create a new volume (partition) with this space, or simply merge it to existing partition by extending the size of the existing partition.

but I am still unable to combine the space with my existing C drive. Argggg

In Disk Manager you should be able to right click on the partition you want to expand (in the bar-graph style section at the bottom of the window) and one of the options should be expand. However, like I said before, if the unused space if before and not after the C partition, it won't work. Instead you'll need a partition manager like the free one I linked above.

You'll need to create a boot CD since you can't resize the boot partition while Windows is running.