Recovery-partition remove to win disk space

I eliminated recently the part system recovery in Windows XP, since this part has no use for me (I backup self regularly). The” problem” is however that self on my hard disk still a recovery-partition finds. These such bit 1.75 GB takes in. The hard disk is (in the factory) geared to three partitions: Recovery, the C-disk and a D-disk. I want to remove this recovery-partition thus now also, since I system recovery no longer use. The recovery-partition is however not visibly in the scout, because to it has been coupled also no driveletter. Can I remove this partition just and award the released space for instance at the C” And how must I go then to work”

Jan Harm Lutjeboer