Can I do a system Recovery?

Can't Perform Full System Recovery After Some Partition Changes?

• I've been obsessing with installing Ubuntu 11.10 alongside Windows 7 Starter on my netbook for 2 days now. The very first time I've tried to do the installation, I made a mistake with selecting how much space Ubuntu can take up. It was too small, the installer crashed, and every time I've tried to install after that has been worse. It went from telling me that I already have Ubuntu Installed, to telling me that the only installation options I have are to replace Windows with Ubuntu, or do "Something Else". After about the 4th time (out of maybe 7 tries), I tried to make a partition on my hard disk for Ubuntu. When I opened the Disk Manager, I saw that my hard disk was divided into 7 different partitons, and instantly panicked because i don't like clutter or disorder. Plus from what I've heard, your hard disk should only be divided into 3 parts: The recovery section, the System Reserved section, and the section for media and documents and other things of yours. And so I did a little bit of research on how to merge partitions and whatnot, and with a few tweaks and tries, it went from 7 partitions to this: http://i42.tinypic.com/adyu77.jpg I figured everything was nice, clean, and orderly. When I got done with THAT, I decided to do a full system recovery (which was easy because my netbook was only previously owned by a tutoring program, which is how I got it, meaning there's nothing on it), and just before the recovery process started, a little window popped up that said that I have "insufficient space on drive for temporary files system recovery". That's where I got scared. So tell me, experts, did I mess up my hard disk past the point of no return? Is there a way to undo whatever I did and completely reset my netbook? Here's some useful info: 1. My netbook is an Acer Aspire One netbook running on (the ridiculously limited) Windows 7 Starter 2. My netbook has a total of 250gb of memory, and 219gb on the Acer disk (the one for my media and whatnot) 3. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 from a 4gb usb stick. 4. I also have a bigger Acer Aspire, which is what I'm using for research and this question, that runs a better Windows 7 (i can't remember which one. I think it's Home Premium) 5. I'm 17 and am able to follow instructions pretty well. I know the basics about computers, along with a little advanced stuff. No green-codes-on-a-black-background stuff though (sorry). Your clear, mature, straight-forward answers are appreciated :)

• Answer:

  You've destroyed the recovery partition. and there's no going back. OTOH, you cab now install Ubuntu as the sole OS and have a much better computer.