new v3 with windows8. hard disk has 2 partitions, very small, then c: drive, then recovery drive = 4

guardone

My hard disk contains 4 existing partitions. I was hoping to split the large c: drive into 2 to create a data drive, and hoping that win8 would not have the 4 partition limit.

The first 2 partitions are about 400mb each. can anyone explain why there are 2 and can I lose one of them or amalgamate.

 

Ideally I want to split c to make a data drive, existing d drive is 18g of recovery.

Then ideally I would like to make the laptop dual boot with win7;. If anyone has info please share, especially if it is impossible.

 

thank you all.

G1

Tommy-Acer

Go into Computer Management and look at the Disk Management tool, what does it show each drive as?

 

Example:

400MB Healthy (Recovery partition)

100MB Healthy (EFI System partition)

11.72 GB Healthy (Recovery partition)

106.91 GB Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

 

 

sarah_kz

can anyone tell me how to make partition??????

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Acer-Tommy wrote:

Go into Computer Management and look at the Disk Management tool, what does it show each drive as?

 

Example:

400MB Healthy (Recovery partition)

100MB Healthy (EFI System partition)

11.72 GB Healthy (Recovery partition)

106.91 GB Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

 

 

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