Why are my three cloned SSD partitions different to HDD. HDD is 1.46gb active recovery partition, 286gb (C) Drive (Win7 takes up 73gb) and 10.21gb primary partition. SSD is 68gb active recovery partition, 146gb (C) (Win7 takes up 73gb) and 10.21gb primary partition. It appears the active recovery partition (shaded one) on SSD has too much disk space allocated. SSD is 240gb. Can anyone enlighten me, recommend how to change partition.
SSD cloned partitions
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sirstinky
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By default, Windows 7 installs a "recovery partition" that it uses to repair the operating system should it get corrupted or run into some other calamity and need to be restored. There should only be two partitions in a (non OEM) Windows install: the recovery and the allocated main partition where the OS is installed and files are stored and accessed. The 3rd one is another part of the recovery partition. As far as size allocation, sometimes hard drives just do it that way. I've had some 500 GB HDD's lost 40 to 60 GB to an unallocated part of the partition. I forget what it's for. In a clone or image, I've run into 3 partitions before like you mentioned. If you want to change partitions, you'll have to do a clean Windows install.
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sirstinky said: "There should only be two partitions in a (non OEM) Windows install: the recovery and the allocated main partition where the OS is installed"
Non-OEM installations don't have a recovery partition. The second partition is a small (only 100MB), active one which contains the Boot Manager and which the system boots from. Booting from this separate, hidden partition offers greater security then having boot data on the main Windows partition.
Non-OEM installations don't have a recovery partition. The second partition is a small (only 100MB), active one which contains the Boot Manager and which the system boots from. Booting from this separate, hidden partition offers greater security then having boot data on the main Windows partition.
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