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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