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07-01-2010, 09:29 PM
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Need Laptop Advice?
Hi i got a new samsung laptop today it came with a 500GB hard drive it had 2 partition's the C drive had 100GB and than the D drive had around 350Gb on it so i deleted the D drive and added the space back to the C drive i wanted to know why are laptops hard drives coming with 2 partitions? and when i added the space back to the c drive i just hope it wont mess the laptop up
i for got to add there are 3 partitions one being the recovery partition and i never touched that one Last edited by polkcountyguy24; 07-01-2010 at 09:51 PM. |
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07-02-2010, 04:36 AM
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Are you sure the D drive wasn't the recovery partition?
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07-02-2010, 08:03 AM
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I have a Theory. Its done for Multimedia applications. To put movies on. Possibly for sharing.
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07-02-2010, 10:45 AM
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It's so that you can run a full system recovery if necessary without deleting your data files. The "D" drive is for all your data storage.
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07-02-2010, 01:33 PM
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yeah i checked it befor i deleted it and added all the free space back to the C drive the D drive was clean had 350 GB free space..... the laptop seems to work just fine and i did do a backup befor i did it
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07-13-2010, 01:29 PM
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I know Acer is known to do this, i'm guessing it's for recovery purposes, though most recovery partitions are a fraction of your noted size. But it's good that your laptop still works fine after that
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07-27-2010, 03:11 AM
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well its going on almost a month now and the laptop is still running good no troubles from deleteing the D drive and adding the free space back to the C drive i even still have the recovery partition if i ever need to use it the recovery partition is hidden so it cant be deleted by the user i guess laptop makers are doing it that way now to be safe so a user dont delete it
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