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Title says it all, I saw something about rescue and recovery but could not find the option to remove or even shrink it.

First, you must enering to bios : - security - predesktop area -> set to disable,then you may use any softvare for disk management and delete it, because this partition will be visible.

HockeyZ39 wrote:Title says it all, I saw something about rescue and recovery but could not find the option to remove or even shrink it.

You are talking about the one that shows up as drive x and is about a 1GB in size?

If so after you've removed any files you need from it delete it in CSS Client Security Solution. I'm running Vista right now, it's not hard to remove. As I recall it's a file in your My Documents folder.

Well I have a 100gig hard drive and am only getting 88 of it. I was thinking the secure drive was more than a GIG... What other reasons could be causing me to loose so much space?

HockeyZ39 wrote:Well I have a 100gig hard drive and am only getting 88 of it. I was thinking the secure drive was more than a GIG... What other reasons could be causing me to loose so much space?

First, 100gig is NOT 100gig. The people who sell hard disks calculate disk size differently than the standard definition of a "byte," which if iirc is 1024 bits. In any event, a 100 gig drive is really about a 94gb disk as calculated by Windows. Therefore, you have "lost" 6 gb.

Almost certainly that 6gb is your service partition. You have received information here about how to reclaim it. The problem is that in order to use it you will then need to repartition your disk to either incorporate it into the partition you are using now or to make a new partition presumably larger than 6gb as that is pretty small.

There are a whole lot of ways to do that but they really extend beyond this post, they are a topic in and of themselves.

Why do you want to delete your service partition? Sounds short sighted in my opinion.