remove all the HARD drive recovery partition incl. disk partitions

IM in the process of upgrading to vista 32-bit Ultimate edition - a Lenovo T61 laptop OS original vista home, comes with HARD 160 GB but only show 110 GB disk.
There is the hidden for drive recovery partition. now, I've wanted this disk recovery partition removed for more space for important files of video editing.

How can I remove this parition hidden containing the recovery disk?

I bought the support for laptop recovery CD - I have no need of the hidden partition.

in the process, I deleted the existing partition (not the hiiden recovery partition) and installed vista ultimate 32 and it lights without problem. I then installed
the INF chipset utilitty downloaded from the Lenovo Web site, and then installed some drivers downloaded - and all in perfect condition smooth running.

now, I decided to remove that hidden partition containing the disk recovery - whatever happens after that, I have the recovery CD.

How to remove this hidden partition? TIA

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/02/29/delete-and-remove-to-unlock-EISA-hidden-recovery-or-diagnostic-partition-in-Vista/

The link above is General info re remove hidden restore partitions.

"In some OEM system, such as IBM/Lenovo, is impossible to remove from Windows."

This link below might be more to the point for you:

http://Forum.NotebookReview.com/showthread.php?p=2367169

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"" "This applies only to Windows Vista.

* Make sure that you have backed up your OEM code before deleting the Rugged hidden

The hidden restore Partition Lenovo is a protected partition, then you will not be able to remove it through disk management as you would with any other normal partition. You can use Diskpart. You can still use these steps to remove the hidden restore partition if you have already done a clean install, but you will need a 3rd party software to combine with the main partition. It is better if you remove the first hidden restore Partition, then cross with a clean install using one of the many guides available on this forum.

Step 1.
Burn recovery media. Type "Recovery media" (without the quotes) in the search in the Start Menu. Open the application and follow the instructions.

Step 2.
Open the application by typing Diskpart either 'Diskpart' (without the quotes) in the search, or type "Diskpart.exe" in run by pressing Windows key + R.

Step 3.
Now with open Diskpart, you must enter the following command lines:

I. type "list disk" without the quotes and press ENTER.

II. Type in "select disk 0" and press ENTER.

III. then type in "list partition" and press ENTER.

IV. then type in 'select partition x' x = the recovery partition you want to delete (I think it's 1, I do not remember) replace x with the number of recovery partition and press to enter.

V. finally type in "delete partition override" and press ENTER.

That should do the trick. Good luck!

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