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.

    21.49 GB non-NTFS partition in Asus G73SW

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by hearts11, Oct 26, 2011.

  1. hearts11

    hearts11 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have 750GB HDD in my Asus G73SW.For some reason, i have a 21.49 GB non-NTFS partition which is being shown as Healthy(Active, Primary Partition) besides from the main OS partition of 174.66 GB, Healthy( System, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition).

    It's been there from the day i bought the laptop. I've never bothered with it since i thought it might be something important. But now i am short of space and i want to know if i can delete that partition or not. Any thoughts?
     
    hearts11, Oct 26, 2011
    #1
  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

    Reputations:
    7,588
    Messages:
    10,023
    Likes Received:
    1,077
    Trophy Points:
    581
    This is your recovery partition, do not mess with it. You have the option of adding a second hard drive in the G74, so you might as well do that. Do not get a Western Digital drive though, the prices have gone up to crazy levels thanks to the floods in Thailand.
     
    tijo, Oct 26, 2011
    #2
  3. hearts11

    hearts11 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Are you sure it's a recovery partition because 22 GB for recovery sounds ridiculous, but that's just my thought.
     
    hearts11, Oct 26, 2011
    #3
  4. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

    Reputations:
    7,588
    Messages:
    10,023
    Likes Received:
    1,077
    Trophy Points:
    581
    Recovery partition on my JH is 19.53GB, yes it is large indeed. It is around 10GB on my N50, it might be due to the level of compression used for the recovery partition, don't forget it also holds all the preinstalled utilities and bloatware.
     
    tijo, Oct 26, 2011
    #4