Comments on: Delete and Remove to Unlock EISA Hidden Recovery or Diagnostic Partition in Vista

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:03:25 +0000

In response to Joe: It is indeed not possible to extend a boot partition, only to reduce it. The only thing you can do is to create a new volume with the unallocated partition.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:39:30 +0000

This is wonderful and worked well! However, diskmgmt won’t allow me to extend my primary partition with the recovery one. The recovery partition is unallocated in the ‘front’ of the disk. Diskmgmt only allows me to create a new volume using the recovery partition.

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Disk Management - Page 2 - Vista Forums — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:50:56 +0000

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By: John

John — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:31:44 +0000

This was exactly what I needed. My Eisa partition got stuck right in the middle of a new hard drive splitting the drive in half. This fixed it.

Thanks!

By: Abhinav

Abhinav — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:40:49 +0000

I’ve read this entire article and understood that this partition is useful for system restore or recovery…But , the EISA config partition is completely empty in my sony vaio….Can u help me understand this???

By: Dan M

Dan M — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:48:44 +0000

For the record, I was able to follow these instructions and successfully deleted my EISA partition in XP SP2, without downloading anything.

By: Geofrey

Geofrey — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:57:10 +0000

Bump! (if there’s such a thing)

Great advice. Now I can finally install ubuntu with more disk space.

By: d_snow

d_snow — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:20:28 +0000

Dude! Freakin’ sweet! Concise, useful, couldn’t be better!

kudos from one tech to another

By: Rosewood

Rosewood — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:08:37 +0000

I got so far as using the diskpart tool but I didn’t know about the override switch. I pulled the drive from my laptop to use in an external chassis and wanted to clear that junk off.

By: Eirik

Eirik — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:00:24 +0000

Thanks a lot. I was all over the web searching for this, but this was the only valid resource I could find. I too will recommend this to anyone who’s having trouble with recovery partitions.

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:35:24 +0000

Thanks a lot, finally after searching for a way to do this this has worked.
Will recommend this to anyone else who wants to erase that OEM partition. (recovery partition)

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:26:44 +0000

Your procedure works great! thanks.
But I would remove the comment from Andy since using CLEAN will remove partition information on the selected hard drive!!!

By: scott

scott — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:53:55 +0000

thanks this worked great

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:06:42 +0000

I followed these instructions but it wouldn’t delete the partition. However, once the disk and partition is selected if you type ‘clean’ it gets rid of it.

By: juanilogo

juanilogo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:37:09 +0000

Yo lo que quiero es reinstalar esa EISA utility de dell, que borré accidentalmente y que en mi dell xps usa 47 mb en una partición que tiene al principio.

Como podría reinstalarlo?