How to delete dell recovery partition and make OS Bootable CD

if you delete it, Win7 won't boot. You need to copy the booting files from the recovery
partition to the Win7 partition before you delete the recovery partition. He provides these instructions:
I'll assume the recovery partition doesn't have a drive letter.

Before commencing the Win7 procedure you should make a BootIt NG (BING) CD.

unzip the file
double click makedisk.exe, next
dot in I accept the agreement, next
no tick for Registration, next
dot in Mouse Support Enabled, next
dot in VESA Video, next
dot in Partition Work (Don't put a dot in Normal), next
don't choose any Default Device Options (if necessary, these can be chosen
in BING), next
leave Registration strings blank, next
select your CD burner drive letter (you can use a CD-RW or a CD-R disc)
Finish

In Win7, you have to unhide the Recovery Partition.

In Disk Management, right click the Recovery Partition, click Change Drive Letter and Paths..., click Add, dot in Assign the following drive letter,
click the drop down arrow and select P , click OK.

Start an Administrator mode Command Prompt. To do this, click on the Start button, then All Programs, then Accessories. Right-click on the Command
Prompt item and select Run as administrator from the pop-up menu. If a UAC prompt is displayed, click the Yes button.

Unload the BCD registry hive by running the following command:
reg unload HKLM\BCD00000000

Copy the bootmgr file from the Recovery Partition to the Windows 7 partition. Run the following command: robocopy p:\ c:\ bootmgr

Copy the Boot folder from the Recovery Partition to the Windows 7 partition. Run the following command: robocopy p:\Boot C:\Boot /s

The booting files have now been copied. If you wish to verify that they were copied correctly, run the following command: dir c:\ /ah

If the bootmgr file and the Boot folder show up in the list, the procedure was successful.

In Disk Management, right click the Recovery Partition, click Change Drive Letter and Paths..., click Remove, Yes. This hides the Recovery Partition
again. In Disk Management, right click the C: drive, click Mark Partition as Active, Yes.

Restart the computer with a BING CD in the drive.
In BING, do a BCD Edit on Win7.
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In BING, delete the Recovery Partition.

click Close on Work with Partitions
click Reboot and remove the CD

Win7 should boot.
This may be a little too involved for me....may have to just accept that I have a useless (except for booting) 11GB partition.