Resizing the Acer recovery partition

[stevew]

I have an Acer notebook which has a hidden recovery partition taking up about 7.8 GB of hard drive space. However, only 6.1 GB of that partition is actually used, the rest is free space.

Is there anything wrong with using a partition manager to shrink the recovery partition down to 6.1 GB, being that the files on that partition don't move or grow?

[Raymond]

Logically there is nothing wrong in resizing the recovery partition to a smaller size since it is taking more space than it is supposed to. The recovery partition does not change, so I believe it should be safe. Always make a full backup of your recovery partition first before making any changes.

[Polkadot]

Most OEMs leave extra space on their 'Recovery' partitions in case they need it in future updates.

[blackrose]

If you really want that free space, I suggest that you create Back up in DVDs using Acer Recovery Management Console. It is easy to use recovery from hard disk than DVDs. It depends on you which u wanna use. I think ~8 GB is not a huge space when you have more than 140 GB or higher.

DVDs get damaged so I suggest that you make DVD backup of your system and still leave the ESIA partition so that when ever you wnat to recover just boot the DVD rest will be done for you.

Please read the help files that comes with Acer recovery management (E-management).

Please don't disable any of acer services this will deactives your OEM license.