Two HDD Questions

seavixen32 said:

Zomby88 said:

What`s the 8.96 GBs all about ?

It's the active partition so it'll contain the boot record and is probably the recovery partition too.

8.96 for a recovery ? Way to small, and who puts a recovery partition in front of C:

The 8.96 partition is the old OEM manufacturer's Vista Recovery partition.

You only have one HD Drive.

I am not certain. How could I verify what is actually on the 8GB ? When I initially upgraded to Win 7, there were 2 partitions as listed. Also, should be noted, after the clean install, I had 203G of free space which has reduced now to 194.

Seavixen's explanation sounds most plausible.


Edit: I just checked prior to posting, and I now have 200GB of free space ?

If you right click on the 8G space will it let you explore it ?

Personally I would reinstall and delete everything.
Should look more like this.

No, it will not let me explore.

I deleted Vista when I reinstalled before. Can Vista be recovered for Win 7 upgrade recognition purposes. ? I hate to call Microsoft again for activation. Also, can that 8GB partition be eliminated ?

Thanks, Ztruker !