Removing recovery partition...

[Idarzoid]

...without the removing the ability to boot into Windows, is this possible?

I just received my 128GB Crucial M4 SSD and installed it in my M11x R3 (prior to this, I made an AlienRespawn USB key)

After using the AlienRespawn USB key I made earlier to restore the system onto the SSD, the recovery partition eats up quite a bit of space (the partition is 27GB, leaving me with 90GB partition and that isn't quite enough for the games I want to put on it.) so I proceeded to remove the partition, because I thought that it's not needed, after all I have the USB key to recover but that rendered Windows unable to boot.

What do I do? Will I have to reinstall Windows from scratch? (I have a plain & fresh Windows 7 installation on another USB key) Or is there an alternative way of fixing it? I tried Window's repair tool, as well as /fixboot and /fixmbr but that didn't help.

Data loss isn't a concern here, I have backed them up and they're also on the 750GB hard drive that came with my M11x.

[hermitmaster]

1. Click on the start button
2. Right-click on Computer, click Manage
3. Click on Disk Management
4. Highlight the recovery partition, right-click, Delete
5. Highlight the primary partition, right-click, Extend.
6. Make sure to extend the primary partition to take all of the space left behind by the recovery partition.
7. You're done. Have a nice day.

[Idarzoid]

Tried that, no option to delete it, ended up booting into PartedMagic to remove it and extended the Windows partition but doing so ruined the ability to boot Windows.

Ended up installing a fresh copy of Windows 7, less bloatware to deal with and getting back the Alienware look & feel isn't complicated anyways.