Comment 58 for bug 659438

John, I just got a new HP laptop and it had 4 partitions used for Windoze 7 leaving none for me to put Linux on. So I wrote to HP support to see what they all were, and a nice fellow at HP said they comprised a main, boot, recovery and "tools" for flashing the bios without using windows. So which one can I delete? He says to use the recovery partition, after making backup DVD's (5 of 'em!), since if you move partitions the recovery partition will get all screwed up anyhow and you won't be able to use it. "But I can't help you with Linux..." ...that's OK, thanks! So I deleted the recovery, made a logical partition of it, and now have 3 distros running happily (Bodhi, Mint XFCE and Ubuntu 10.10). Oh yeah, and Win7.