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‎12-19-2022 08:40 AM

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Product: Compaq Presario CQ57-319WM Notebook PC
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have a Compaq Presario CQ57 Laptop running Windows 10 Home 64 bit.

It has one internal hard drive with 4 primary partitions: SYSTEM, (C:), Recovery and HP_TOOLS.

I used diskmgmt.msc to shrink the (C:) partition to free up space so I can install Linux Mint in a dual boot configuration.

But the resulting space is unusable. I believe I need to make it into a partition but I am unable to do that since the disk already contains the maximum of 4 primary partitions.

I would like to delete one of the existing partitions but don't want to lose the capabilities they provide.

Is there a way I can make a bootable DVD of the HP_TOOLS partition so that I can delete that one? If I ever need to run HP_TOOLS I could boot from that DVD.

Or is there another way to get around this problem?

Thanks

g15t

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