question on primary partion

[sandcracker21]

I have a quick question....I have a dell computer and they have put 10 gigs of my HDD as a partion for 'backup' purposes

I would like to get back those 10 gigs since I have just got a second HDD for backup purposes...how would I go about doing this?

NOTE: I have vista running

[sandcracker21]

Also, how exactly would I use my new drive to create a partion that can mirror my OS and all the important system files and whatnot?

sorry for sounding stupid, but I have never done this and I got the drive bare OEM

[EzyStvy]

That 10 gigs is probably a recovery partition that contains your OS incase you need to reinstall the OS. Unless you also got the cd or dvd, it wouldn't be a good idea to do anything.

[glc]

Buy this external housing:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817362002

Put your second drive in it, and use the included software to create an image of your system. I also highly recommend you leave the recovery partition alone.

[sandcracker21]

I do not really want to make my second HDD external, but I am interested in making a 'mirror' of my OS and primary HDD in a partition on this secondary, larger, HDD

that is my question in how I can do this...

and for the record, the backup partition originaly on my primary drive was blank when I first received the computer, i thought it was just for doing 'easy-backups'

[glc]

External backup storage is a lot safer than internal.

It's not blank - all the files are hidden.