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Need Help With Dell Windows 7 Partition
Hi, I'm looking at buying a refurbished Dell Windows 7 laptop, was under the impression that the hard drives were partitioned such that the Windows 7 OS was in a smaller 50 GB C: drive, and that the D: drive contained the rest of the drive's space for all the programs I want to install.
Can someone here please let me know if this is true; or whether the hard drive is partitioned (like my current HP) with a large C: drive with Windows residing on it in it's own Windows folderas well as including ALL the data/program space available, and only a D: drive for Windows repair reboots (VERY small)
Thanks for any insights and information.
ejn63
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November 15th, 2017 16:00
Unless someone ordered the system with a custom partition scheme, it'll come with a single large C: partition. Depending on how the refurbisher set the system up, the hidden recovery partition may or may not still be present -- but that is not the Windows partition. It's just a recovery partition for restoring the system back to factory configuration.
DELL-Alasdair R
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November 16th, 2017 04:00
If that doesn't suit your needs, there's nothing to stop you changing the partition sizes:
www.dell.com/.../partitioning-your-hard-drive-in-windows-7-without-formatting-the-whole-drive
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November 16th, 2017 06:00
Thanks to all! :)