Partition??

Suggest you post a snip of your Disk Management. Then we can advise you.

usually if you buy a netbook or notebook.. that's should be write on specification about the OS..you buy it include the OS or non OS, if include the OS if you see at device manager and disk management you will see that's the partition for storing your original OS.

I would not change a thing.

1. the first partition is your recovery partition that contains the backup of the OS in case you have to reinstall
2. the second little partition is your boot partition
3. the 3d partition is the operating system
4. the 4th partition is available for data

Note that you cannot create any more partitions at this time (without getting into deep trouble called dynamics) because you already have 4 primaries - which is the maximum. If you plan to create another partition, come back and we will tell you the steps on how to create another partition safely.

whs said:

I would not change a thing.

1. the first partition is your recovery partition that contains the backup of the OS in case you have to reinstall
2. the second little partition is your boot partition
3. the 3d partition is the operating system
4. the 4th partition is available for data

Note that you cannot create any more partitions at this time (without getting into deep trouble called dynamics) because you already have 4 primaries - which is the maximum. If you plan to create another partition, come back and we will tell you the steps on how to create another partition safely.

WHS -- Isn't the Recovery Partition empty?

bigmck said:

whs said:

I would not change a thing.

1. the first partition is your recovery partition that contains the backup of the OS in case you have to reinstall
2. the second little partition is your boot partition
3. the 3d partition is the operating system
4. the 4th partition is available for data

Note that you cannot create any more partitions at this time (without getting into deep trouble called dynamics) because you already have 4 primaries - which is the maximum. If you plan to create another partition, come back and we will tell you the steps on how to create another partition safely.

WHS -- Isn't the Recovery Partition empty?

No, it contains an image of your whole system as it came out of the box. Once you burnt the recovery DVDs from it, you could delete it. But I do not recommend that without further safety measures like e.g. images. You never know whether the DVDs you burnt will work.

jack1953 said:

I just bought a used Samsung netbook. It has Windows 7 Starter. It is 120G HD but is partitioned. Are these partitioned by design? Is there a way to 'unpartition it'???
Thanks,
Jack

When you start installing things, put your programs on C: and your Data on D:. An example would be MS Office on your C: drive and put the letters that you type in Office on your D: drive. It makes things tidy and if you ever have to reinstall Windows, you will have all of your documents on D: drive and will not have to back them up.

whs said:

No, it contains an image of your whole system as it came out of the box. Once you burnt the recovery DVDs from it, you could delete it. But I do not recommend that without further safety measures like e.g. images. You never know whether the DVDs you burnt will work.

The reason I said that is that it shows the capacity as all free.