Iconia W3-810 Multiple partitions

Johnb12

Hello Acer community,

I am curious into why I have 4 recovery partitions, according to Disk Management. Also, in Defrag and Optimize program, there are two drives called Volume and random codes. Earlier this week, I recovered my tablet due to Windows not working correctly, and if I remember correctly, there was one volume drive with code.

Why do I have two now? Is it normal to have two volume drives, and 4 recovery partitions?

 

Thanks.

billsey

I have a different model tablet, but a lot of the requirements for partition are the same. I have a small amount of unpartitioned space at the beginning of the drive, I believe used by the UEFI BIOS. Then there is a small recovery partition followed by an EFI system partition and finally my large OS partition. At the end of the drive there is another small recovery partition. Total space used by the little partitions and the unpartitioned area is a bit more than 1GB (501MB, 400MB, 100MB, 350MB). I would imagine you would have a simikar arrangement. The stock tablet will often have either an additional recovery partition with an OS image in it or one of the existing recovery partitions will be large enough for the OS image.

Johnb12

Oh, how much do you have on your primary partition? I have 9.7 after installing my apps.

Leonid

Hello Johnb12, you will find several messages about his subject in this forum. When I first got my W3, I wanted to protect the software since that was the most value. I wanted to do an image of the drive, sounded simple. But it never is. This tablet was bleeding edge when it was released. You have the WIN 8 issues which include the protected BIOS and new partition setup. I did some experimenting and almost lost the whole machine. It is not hard to brick this W3. I do believe all partitions are neccesary and some are sensitive to placement and size.

 

The only 3rd party partitioning software for WIN8 is 64 bit only. W3-810 is 32 bit. So the Acer recovery disk is the only way to recover the system. You can backup files with any WIN8 software. There also some recent messages about getting a WIN8.1 Acer recovery disk.

 

To see some partition examples of the W3 goto:

http://community.acer.com/t5/Windows-Tablets/W3-SSD-Partitions-and-volume-bitmap/m-p/146903/highlight/true#M1431

 

 

 

JakeDem12

 

 

I have the same problem as Johnb12. I saw the thread Leonid posted, however I havei too many partitions. Can the partitions be clones of each other? According to Diskpart, there are two of the exact same partitions. Anyway to fix this?