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General Software Discussion / Remove Hidden Boot Partition
« on: January 13, 2013, 04:58 PM »
My wife's laptop came with a recovery partition, a hidden os boot partition and a Win 8 partition. The machine doesn't have an optical disk or recovery CDs. I have an image of the Win partition and I'd like to delete the big recovery partition. It seems the only way to do that is to wipe the entire disk using diskpart; ordinary partition tools won't touch it. This would wipe out the hidden boot partition so, my question is can I restore the Win 8 image on a fresh drive and get it to boot? Is there a way to move whatever is necessary in the hidden boot partition to the main Win partition and reimage?
I'm thinking all this isn't doable and I can't afford to remove the recovery partition before I know I can get a bootable solution from an image.
I'm thinking all this isn't doable and I can't afford to remove the recovery partition before I know I can get a bootable solution from an image.