I messed up and don't know what to do to fix my mess. For some reason I got a wild hair to make a recovery partition. I used diskpart to make this partition and then decided against it. I am now left with a partition that I cannot manipulate so that I can recover the space. Would someone please look at the following snip of my hard drive in disk management and tell me if there is any way I can undo this mess. Here's a link to my skydrive photo.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resi...oHtPQZiwAU&v=3
My PC boots fine. Why is the recovery partition marked as the system partition when there's nothing on it. Why isn't the C: partition the system partition? Also I have a complete system backup I made with Acronis before I did this. I have a Hirens boot cd. Could I use it to reformat the hard drive and just recover from the backup? Don't you just love dealing with dumba**es like me. I know just enough to be dangerous.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resi...oHtPQZiwAU&v=3
My PC boots fine. Why is the recovery partition marked as the system partition when there's nothing on it. Why isn't the C: partition the system partition? Also I have a complete system backup I made with Acronis before I did this. I have a Hirens boot cd. Could I use it to reformat the hard drive and just recover from the backup? Don't you just love dealing with dumba**es like me. I know just enough to be dangerous.