To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space becomes unallocated, and you can create a new partition using Disk ...

When setting up new computers, the system installation will ask you to partition your unallocated space. This represents the space on your hard drive that has not been assigned a drive letter. Without ...

You may view your hard drive in Disk Management and see unallocated space. The space will be on the hard drive, but Windows cannot use it. It is like having a spare room in your house but locked off.

Now that Windows 7 is creeping up on general availability, you'll probably want to remove your RC installation. I assume most of you interested are running these pre-release versions in a dual boot ...