Should I delete my recovery partition?

[technetafrica]

This may sound crazy, but I'm thinking of deleting my recovery partition. I have an Asus UX51VZ, which has two 128 GB mSata discs in RAID 0. The read and write speed are insane but the catch is the mSata discs are proprietary so there's little chance of upgrading or at least little chance at a reasonable cost (about R10000 for two 256 GB drives). It just seems like such a waste to have 10% of my drive eaten up by a recovery partition that can actually be put on a flash drive. Any thoughts?

 

[Maverick Jester]

I say delete. The recovery partition is useless in the event of disc failure anyway.

As long as you have some sort of recovery disc elsewhere and available, I don't see why you need it.

BUT- perhaps check what implication this might have re your Windows license. Not sure if it does.

 

[ponder]

Create installation dvds and delete it.

 

[Fudzy]

Just watch out where your MBR resides.

 

[technetafrica]

I have three 'hidden' partitions, I'm pretty sure it's safe to delete the 20GB one, I'm less sure it's safe to delete the 900MB one and I'm pretty sure it's a bad idea to delete the 300MB EFI partition. Should I delete both the 20GB and 900MB partitions or just the 20GB one? Thanks for responses.

 

[Maverick Jester]

I have three 'hidden' partitions, I'm pretty sure it's safe to delete the 20GB one, I'm less sure it's safe to delete the 900MB one and I'm pretty sure that the MBR is in the 300MB partition. Should I delete both the 20GB and 900MB partitions or just the 20GB one? Thanks for responses

Not sure how they are hidden? You can extend the disk to reclaim them after deleting the partitions, but be careful.

 

[Fudzy]

Did you already delete everything from the other partitions?