The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Default factory 20GB partition

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by shifttab, Aug 10, 2011.

  1. shifttab

    shifttab Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    75
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Is the only way to get that 20gb factory default partition back by completely reformatting and reinstalling windows 7?
     
    shifttab, Aug 10, 2011
    #1
  2. soulhacker

    soulhacker Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    10
    Messages:
    131
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    its possible to delete the recovery information from that partition and then to re integrate it into another existing one however its ill advised...it tends to ahve more problems that way its like having "used" memory....its better to just reformat
     
    soulhacker, Aug 10, 2011
    #2
  3. clienterror

    clienterror Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    22
    Messages:
    275
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Yea, that's one of the reasons i reformatted as soon as I got my my 14x. It doesn't make much sense to keep a recovery partition on the same drive.
     
    clienterror, Aug 10, 2011
    #3
  4. shifttab

    shifttab Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    75
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hmmmm, I super dislike reformatting because it takes forever, but I guess if I want that extra 20gb, it would be wiser to do it now considering I don't have much installed where as I would months down the line with more things installed.
     
    shifttab, Aug 10, 2011
    #4
  5. soulhacker

    soulhacker Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    10
    Messages:
    131
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    exactly...thats why i reformatted mine pretty much out of the box bc it was already bare bones...i remember telling you the same :) :p
     
    soulhacker, Aug 10, 2011
    #5
  6. shifttab

    shifttab Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    75
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Yeah lol, I think I just got too excited about getting the laptop and wanted to play some PC games because I haven't own a PC in over 5-6 years.

    Oh well, I hope it doesn't take too long.

    I guess I'll just follow these guides tonight and do a fresh install.
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...er-install-order-guide-alienware-systems.html
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ook-feel-after-clean-install-windows-7-a.html
     
    shifttab, Aug 10, 2011
    #6
  7. soulhacker

    soulhacker Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    10
    Messages:
    131
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    lol yea i feel ya....let me know if you run into any problems
     
    soulhacker, Aug 10, 2011
    #7
  8. shifttab

    shifttab Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    75
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    thanks! :)
     
    shifttab, Aug 10, 2011
    #8