INCREASING RECOVERY DISK PARTITION

HI, New to this forum and was wondering if anyone can help me; I have a refurbished HP Pavilion DV6-6c35dx laptop and everything is running great for now. The problem i am having is that i have only 1.43GB of free space on my recovery partition and i need to now if it is safe to increase the size of it using either the Windows 7 disk management or i do have the free edition of EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition program. The partition that i will be allocating the space from is my C: Main Drive; it has 393.17GB of free space available.
Thanks for any help with this.
Mike

The recovery partition shouldn't really be adjusted. If it is, then there is a good chance that the the F11 recovery, should you ever need to reinstall the original OS and software it came with, won't function.
If you need more space to store files, I would advise looking into other storage options such as an external drive. The recovery partition will intentionally have just enough room for the recovery files and not much extra beyond that. This is by design.
Good catch on the system protection option. That is actually quite common and it eventually results in the drive being marked as nearing full capacity and then Windows displays a frequent message about it which can be a nuisance. It's common enough for there to be an HP document regarding it.
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