If you just want to blow away the recovery partition, then repartition to your own specification and install Win7, you might find it worth your while to check out this:
The SystemRescue LiveCD is a bootable CD rescue system, mainly for data crashes, but it includes partitioning tools and supports NTFS.
But even if you don't want it use it now, it's worth having one, even as a Windows user, because you can use it for data recovery and other repair tasks , and it's bootable to a straightforward GUI.
Probably, though you'd need to be cautious, and make sure you didn't touch the boot partition. You could certainly use it to check out the state of your partition table. I wouldn't delete the actual partition but remove its contents and use the space for your own files.
I resent the way computers are sold as general consumer items, but actually require a degree of expertise to set up. You're not an idiot, ergo if the system makes you feel like one, the system is at fault.
I HATE setting up computers. At work, some 25 years ago, I had to build up two desktops from scratch, including installing the hard drives, because the money had come from outside the Directorate, and our techies therefore refused to have anything to do with it. I low-level formatted one of those disks by mistake but, luckily, there wasn't any installed software...
You're not an idiot. The people who make and sell these things are. Make it work out of the box, and talk to everything else, and use the same sodding cable FOR EVERYTHING.
I've always coveted one of those. Until I win the lottery, it will have to be the ordinary MacBook, which I have to say I've always been very happy with.
There is no way Samsung needs a 250gb recovery partition. The usual size is less than 8 gb. If they did need that much they'd be out of business in a few days
I don't know what's going on, but that is crazy
Usually, they cut large disks into two to speed access. You should have had a system disk C and a data disk D (Both the same disk physically) and perhaps a recovery disk. I never bother with them as its easier to rebuild the system yourself rather than use recovery.
The recovery software runs when you start up - and you can't stop it running. It won't work if the disk hasn't been partitioned with a D: drive of at least 450gb of usable space.(i.e. when you ask it to recover it goes into a continuous loop.) I made the mistake of asking for a C: drive that was a tad - and only a tad - bigger than the D: drive.
Of course, if bloody Win 7 had let me connect to the internet - which it refused flatly to do (oh, it saw the router and happily picked up the key, but won't connect!)- I wouldn't have got into the continuous loop where the backupruns but won't backup. I put the system files on a flash drive and booted from those, but it still does into the recovery prog loop...
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If you just want to blow away the recovery partition, then repartition to your own specification and install Win7, you might find it worth your while to check out this:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
The SystemRescue LiveCD is a bootable CD rescue system, mainly for data crashes, but it includes partitioning tools and supports NTFS.
But even if you don't want it use it now, it's worth having one, even as a Windows user, because you can use it for data recovery and other repair tasks , and it's bootable to a straightforward GUI.
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It's one of the many reasons I've always bought Apple Macs. You take them out of the box, you plug them in, they work . . .
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I don't know what's going on, but that is crazy
Usually, they cut large disks into two to speed access. You should have had a system disk C and a data disk D (Both the same disk physically) and perhaps a recovery disk. I never bother with them as its easier to rebuild the system yourself rather than use recovery.
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Of course, if bloody Win 7 had let me connect to the internet - which it refused flatly to do (oh, it saw the router and happily picked up the key, but won't connect!)- I wouldn't have got into the continuous loop where the backupruns but won't backup. I put the system files on a flash drive and booted from those, but it still does into the recovery prog loop...
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