get rid of Rescue and recovery?

[oatesj]

Im not really interested in keeping the rescue and recovery part on my Lenovo R61i and im fairly certain that its the cause of halving my hard drive space. I have everything that i need to keep backed up at a VERY secure location, so i dont really ever care about keeping anything long, so it would be nice to have that half of my hard drive for something more practical. Is there a way to get rid of it without reformatting and re-installing windows? As far as i can tell its not a separate partition as my C: drive lists its capacity correctly. any thoughts?
Thanks
Jim

[mgo]

Im not really interested in keeping the rescue and recovery part on my Lenovo R61i and im fairly certain that its the cause of halving my hard drive space. I have everything that i need to keep backed up at a VERY secure location, so i dont really ever care about keeping anything long, so it would be nice to have that half of my hard drive for something more practical. Is there a way to get rid of it without reformatting and re-installing windows? As far as i can tell its not a separate partition as my C: drive lists its capacity correctly. any thoughts?
Thanks
Jim

It's been a couple years since trying R&R (did not like it at all) but here's what I learned:

- if you decide to uninstall the program, make sure you use R&R to delete your backups first! Otherwise you will will not be able to recover all that drive space! Those backups are hidden and protected and cannot be removed unless you use Rescue & Recovery, or unless you format your drive. (ick!)

- purchase another imaging program. The $40.00 or so is worth a million down the road.

- absolutely the best defense against virus and malware is a clean fresh image on a separate drive that can be restored to bury malware or mistakes (I make many of those!) quickly and reliably.

[sjthinkpader]

We are using Norton Ghost at the office and are evaluating R&R to replace the licensed Norton product.

We are backing up to a NAS.

Since you have to make backup anyway, why not use it.