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    Samsung 840 over provision?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by willy54, Apr 1, 2013.

  1. willy54

    willy54 Notebook Guru

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    The samsung magician says that I have insufficient free space for over provisioning. There is also a note with a warning sign that says "note: using a raw partition may cause damage to your data.
    I cloned the drive and the partitions were not aligned correctly so I used the recovery disc to set it to factory specs. Other than the above mentioned problems everything seems fine. Can I use the disk manager or 3rd party software to shrink the partition to fix this or will I just make things worse? Thanks in advance.
     
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    Partition magic comes to mind, otherwise I'm sure i seen something for this sort of thing in hiren's boot cd.
     
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    Sorry I forgot to mention I used mini tool partition wizard. That fixed the alignment but than sent me to the recovery screen so I used the repair disc and reset the computer. Well chkdsk says it's fine and it runs perfect with the exception of the op on samsung magician. I wonder why it warns me about raw partition when windows and the magician says ntfs for the primary partition?
     
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