Laptop Hard drive

[Willbo]

I've just got a Fujitsu Siemens laptop, its the Amilo LI1705

The thing is, it comes with an 80GB hard drive, however, I only have 60GB available as 20GB is on a "hidden" partition used for recovery purposes.
Do I really need this partition? I will be installing various OS's on the laptop anyway, and just general playing around with it.

 

[semi-pro waster]

If you have the laptops OS in another form or you have various other OSes and therefore don't care about the recovery files then you could certainly delete the partition but it is up to you. I'm not sure how it would affect warranty purposes for instance if there is a problem with the laptop and you have deleted the recover partition.

 

[Deleted member 58846]

If you know what your doing with partitions / disks / logical and physical disks you should be ok to delete it and reclaim just under 20GB of space back.

 

[Willbo]

Yeah that is true. 60GB will still be enough for my needs, but obviously I thought about using the space rather than having it just sit there filled with recovery information that I dont know if i'll use.

 

[Deleted member 58846]

well if theres space there, then if your happy you can deal with any up and coming problems then why not re-claim it. I would...