Guide: How to Delete Hidden Recovery Partition on Vista

[gguan]

I have 3 Partitions do I delete all 3 of them?

[xcaad]

hello,

tried on my thinkpad x200t and not working.
i have the following message: hd can't be deleted because contains important files for the OS... by the way I lauched diskpart with the the admin rights...
help!

[alber]

Very useful guide.. THX

[cn_habs]

When I ran this dispart.exe, it appeared for a sec and simple disappeared. What happened there?

[zillal]

Just a comment. This thread is valid for T61 Vista.

For the Montevina systems (T400/500 ...) Lenovo changed the way the Recovery partition(s) work for Vista.

There are now two visible partitions Q: and S:. After you burn the recovery disks you can delete the Q: partition leaving the smaller S: partition.

So there is now less need to delete the predesktop area S: partition as most of the space is recovered by deleting the Q: partition.