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    20gb partition on hdd ok to remove?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by samrozzi, Dec 24, 2010.

  1. samrozzi

    samrozzi Notebook Consultant

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    in the pic shown

    http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6259/partmo.jpg

    its showing i have a 20GB partition, I dont remember seeing it, but im curious if I accidentally added it because I was making a ubuntu pendrive boot to run from my usb drive. I just want to make sure its ok to delete, because if its something for the OSthan itll stay, but if its a blank partition, I will delete it
     
    samrozzi, Dec 24, 2010
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    frosty5689 Notebook Evangelist

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    Looks like an empty partition to me. Should be safe to delete.
     
    frosty5689, Dec 24, 2010
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  3. samrozzi

    samrozzi Notebook Consultant

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    thats what im thinking, just would hate if somethings on there. but the 8gb is the hidden recovery im assumingand the OS c drive is what im using now.

    also any way to verify? I just realllly dont wanna delete something needed on the os
     
    samrozzi, Dec 24, 2010
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    You can boot with a livecd like ubuntu and use gparted to figure out what it is.

    It shouldn't be critical to booting windows.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Dec 24, 2010
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    System recovery and instant on os partition ...
    14.6Gb on my .. But don't need the space that much so left it alone.
    And yes boot in to linux and that will show what is on it after mounting it.
     
    sama98b, Dec 24, 2010
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