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OEM visible on Disk Management but not on Computer window. Why?
Hello everybody,
Just got a Samsung Chronos 7. It came with 4 partitions...or at least that's what it seemed to me. I had the usual 100Mb System one along with the OEM 23,78GB. I wanted to change the Windows version so I boldly booted from the Windows 7 disk I was interested in. At one point, the system asked me where I wanted to install it. I left the two afore mentioned partitions alone, just in case.
I know I should whip myself for not doing any back-up thinking that by leaving those partitions alone, I could fall back on my feet if anything went wrong.
The fact is that I did reinstall Windows all right but lost all my drivers and basically all the programs that came with this laptop. I don't know if they were worth anything
Now my confusion is that I can still see the two partitions when I go to "computer management". But they don't appear in the Computer window. How is it so? Do you think there is a way to "reach" the OEM partition and restore the system? Or does it work with the dedicated Samsung recovery system that I simply and stupidly squashed?
Many thanks in advance for your kind help!