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OS SSD has a 330 MB disk partition in front of C
New Plextor 256 SSD and made it my OS C: drive. My brother "helped" me to clone it using the included NTI software. He ended up in Linux, unable to get out.
I had backed up my previous SSD OS (C) drive with Norton Ghost. We ended up restoring drive C from Norton Ghost to the new Plextor and it booted perfectly.
But I'm left with the following:
Drive B: (the first partition on the Plextor):
319 MB NTFS healthy (Primary Partition)
Partition B contains:
Sytem Volume Information
$Recycle.Bin - this recycle bin is active and anything deleted from
drive C, is sent to this recycle bin on partition B. I emptied the
recycle bin and when I deleted something from C, it again went
to the recycle bin on B.
I tried making this recycle bin 2 mb but it wouldn't accept it.
Drive C: (the second partion on the Plextor with OS etc)
238.16 GB NTFS healthy (system, boot, active, crash dump,
Primary Partition
Partition C contains what I think it should for a boot drive:
System Volume Information
Boot
Perf Logs
Windows
bootmgr
A few programs that insist or really benefit from being on C
Drive C also has $Recycle.Bin but it has not been used since
the drive was cloned from Norton Ghost. Inside are a few files
with long strings of numbers dated from being used by the
previous drive from which it was cloned.
So, my concern is that I have two primary partitions on one physical drive and that the recycle bin is not used on C, but is used on the other partition which is much larger than it "should" be.
Another concern, probably of less importance, is that one of my Western Digital Black Caviar drives is active and my Intel SSD is also active. So altogether 3 drives plus one partion are all active. I believe this is because those other drives, the WD and the Intel, were once system drives. Apparently I didn't know I should do something special to stop them from continuing to be active when they were no longer system drives.
NOTE: In an effort to minimize use of the Plextor SSD, I moved virtual memory to a fast Black Caviar HD. I plan to format the old SSD and move virtual memory onto that. Would this be a good idea?
SPECS:
Asus P6x58d Premium, 24 gig Kingston DDR3 1600 HyperX memory, i7 930, one Plextor and one Intel M25 SSDs. Three Western Digital black Caviars (2 are 1 tb each and one is 2 tb). Win 7 Prof SP1, 64 bit. HIS ATI 6850 graphics card and 1000 watt power supply.
I would appreciate any and all suggestions and ideas as to how to deal with the many "idiosyncracies" of these drives and whether having two primary partitions on my SSD boot drive will eventually cause trouble. And....what about moving virtual memory to the old SSD which is still working fine but was too small.
With the above issues, the system is running quite well so I'm really not in a hurry to reinstall Windows etc.
Thanks.
Louise