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How to remove Recovery HD partition from Lion?

Hi,

If I make a USB or CD with a Recovery partition using the Recovery Disk Assistant, it makes the recovery partition (~5 GB) on my HDD quite a useless waste of space.

Is it possible to remove it, and add that space onto the existing, single Macintosh HD partition that I have on my drive?

If not, can the removal of the Recovery HD partition be done by re-installing Lion in a certain way?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 20, 2011 11:27 AM

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Mar 19, 2014 11:22 PM in response to Rudolfensis

It would be a smart idea to remove this recovery HDD because if a thief (that knows what they're doing) steals your MBP, the recovery HDD can be used to change the login passwords, granting the thief access to your MBP. If you have any unportected data, the recovery HDD is puting you at risk.

How to remove Recovery HD partition from Lion?

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