Purpose of Local Drive (partition) on GUID Drive - Do I need it?


  1. ejolesch
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    Windows 7 Enterprise
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    Purpose of Local Drive (partition) on GUID Drive - Do I need it?


    I have a home built PC about 4 years old running Windows 7 64bit

    My boot drive (C) has always been a SSD drive and my system is running fine.

    I had a hard drive failure about 30 days ago, that corrupted my boot drive when it failed.

    I have recovered from backup using Shadow Protect Desktop and a Bare Metal recovery

    I am in the process of replacing my older drives that are out of warranty so I don't have any further issues.

    All of the new drives are either 3TB or 4TB. I am formatting them as GUID drives and so far have had no problems.

    My question is what is the purpose of the Local Disk partition that I see on each of my drives. Is it necessary and why would a drive have two local drives. I have one 4 TB Drive (Seagate Hybrid) that has a 128 MB Partition and a 100 MB Partition (both say Local Drive) plus the active partition of 3725.7, formatted NTFS.

    Not a hugh issue, but I wanted to know if it could create any problems or prevent them in the future.

    Thanks

    Elliot
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  3. jumanji
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
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    The 128MB partition is an MSR - Microsoft System Reserved - partition.

    For an explanation please see my post here Weird hard drive partitions

    I still do not know what is that 100MB partition and wherefrom it came.

    Take a 4TB drive. Using Partition Wizard, delete all the partitions including the 128MB and 100 MB partitions and then format it again as a GPT drive.

    After format completion, post a screenshot of the drive as it appears in Partition Wizard.

    Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online
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