Strange SSD drive partition

Hello everyone. I bought Alienvare 17 6 months ago and yesterday saw a strange part of SSD, ~ 32 GB. It detects like unformatted or unknorwn. I don't know his detect. I do not know his destination, maybe recovery, but my computer have so many sections on 8 GB or 300-400 MB. Somebody faced with?




I have written here on this issue, but I'm afraid that people don't understand me right. I discovered a strange SSD drive partition ~ 32 GB on my Alienware, i can't open it and see his space. It detects like a "unknown" or "unformatted", someone faced with it? May be it for recovery or what ?

 

Why do you create that so much partitions? Do you have multiple OSes in your machine?
Just delete those partition your talking about if you dont know what it is. Then xpand your main partition.


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Windows 8 as stock from OEM's does have a lot of partitions - I don't know why Microsoft thought that was a good idea. I would imagine the partition you have found is for the inbuilt reset your pc feature based on its size. Do not pay any attention to iceman's suggestion to delete the partitions - leave it well alone if you want your system to keep working.

 

Well idk... I dont run windows 8.
Thats what i did on mine. I erased the recovery partition after mirroring my systems hdd and sore that in the box for future use incase i need it. I want to have the full control of my ssd/hdd


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If the machine is operating OK and you are not running out of disk space then I'd stick with Simon, you could mess the machine up if you do it wrong . I have no idea why you have so many partitions but I've only loaded win 8 for a few hours so never checked this .

How many drives do you see and what size in explorer?

 

Hi mickeyd1234... Im planning to get a win8 oem on amazon. Can you confirm on your machine if you have that many partitions too in windows8. Thanks


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Sorry man, I can't say. I got the Win8 cheap upgrade with this machine so I loaded that up when win 8 hit the streets. Not a wise move but , live dangerously. It gave me so many problems that I got fed up and just image restored the whole drive so any partitions would have been replaced with my originals.

FYI all the problems have pretty much been sorted now and one thing I learned is to stay away from the win 8 specific BIOS settings, (fast boot, secure boot, and UEFI) on machines not sold with win 8 .

I should have known better than try to use them all with a .0 release .

I'm sure that UEFI creates a partition and it has some new bootloader that depends on the hardware but after that it just looks crazy to me from the OP's pic

Just remembered, fastboot is some sort of hybrid sleep/hibernate (if I understood the TID's I read correctly) so that probably has a partition as well?

 

Now youve convinced me to not get win8.
Well as the saying goes..." If its not broken, dont fix it."


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Good call IMO . The jury is no longer out and the verdict was a clear majority one - Win 8 is not a success. Those of us not using tablets want something way better than this to convince us to upgrade.

I know a new interface can be frustrating but I wasn't getting enough in improvements to warrant perseverance, along with the installation issues!

I see win 8 going the way of Vista since MS have already mentioned Win 9. I doubt that any game is going to be better under win 8 and coders don't need to bother too much, like they did from XP to Vista.

If you like 'playing' and learning then go for it. If you want to safely use your machine for a primary purpose (gaming?) then avoid. Stay with the pack haha...

 

Thx for help guys ! I think that this section was not by random, no one could create it in a store or factory. So will think that it for recovery

 

Recovery partitions are usually labelled 'recovery' and formatted either FAT32 or NTFS. Do you have disk caching enabled (IRST) on the HDD? This uses either a 32gb or 64gb partition on an SSD and is not readable...