Hi everybody,
Two years ago I bought a Dell Inspiron N5110. In addition to the existing windows partition, I wanted to add an Ubuntu partition as well as a data(NTFS) partition. Well, I added the Ubuntu partition, but because of the Dell recovery partition(14,65 GB, 7,69 used, formatted in NTFS), I had no primary partition left to create a data partition. I didn't take the time to solve this until now.
Here you can see the different partitions. The 4,66GB one is the linux swap partition and the 18,63 one is the linux partition. They are of course contained in an extended partition created using GParted while installing linux.
Basically, what I would like to do, is to delete the recovery partition. I didn't had a look into it, but I have read that as it contains some boot data, so that win7 won't boot any more if I delete it. The partition is tagged as "active" (unlike my C main windows partition). I guess this is a classic problem, but I couldn't find a tutorial nor a satisfactory answer on this forum (I apologize if it's the case). I guess that it isn't enough to set to not active the recovery partition and to set the c partition to active(i.e. that this won't move the critical data from the recovery to the c partition). Furthermore, I've read that repartitioning your disk could affect the functionning of the recovery partition in case of an emergency, is this true?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
Greetings,
Harald