Why HP WHY?!

Why do they do that to me? I have bought Pavilion dv6 with 1TB HDD and they have made only one 950GB partition with the system. WHY? Now I have to try ghost and copy and try to make like 100GB system partition and separate it from the rest... Sucks...

 

Read the description carefully, there is explanation for storage size.

Or you just trolling...?

 

I think he is upset about the "single partition". Actually, I too like to have separate partitions. You know: one for the system and another one for bulk data.

 

If you get it from HP, and come in single partition? I mean they should have UEFI thing and recovery. They dont have a drive letter doesnt mean they are not there.

 

Can't you shrink partitions in-place using Windows 7 disk management? Just go to 'Computer Management' under administrative tools in the control panel and click on the disk tab. Right-click on the big partition and select 'shrink volume' and see if that works, then you can make a new partition out of the free space.

 

Ah, but you can't use the recovery or UEFI partition for anything else than recovery and UEFI stuff right?... And this "single big partition" layout is a pain in the butt when you have to reinstall your os.

 

Can someone provide a picture of what the original poster is complaining about? Is HP doing something drastically different than they use to in the past?

Cuz as far I can tell it used to be you got a C drive and a D drive for your recovery partition.

Is he now saying that its all just 1 big drive? and not subdivided into C and D anymore? And if so what was the reason behind it? This new UEFI thing?

 

hmmm. It come in 4 partition usually, Recovery/ Hp_tool (UEFI bios) / local disk(windows+data) /system(bootsector)

So default , only drive letter is assign to local disk so people wont broke other stuff as they cant see it in my computer.

If you want to shrink the local disk for a data partition, you need to delete either HP_TOOLS or RECOVERY. There were a lot of thread covering this.

However, I nvr know any brand would separate a data partition from windows partition unless requested. I guess this is what the OP complaining about.

 

I just took a look at my brothers dv6t SE (which I bought and gave to him so I could use his old dv5t until Ivy Bridge comes out).

In the "Computer" folder it has:

Hard Disk Drives (3)

1) Local Disk (C: )
2) Recovery (D: )
3) HP_Tools (E: )

DVD RW Drive is listed under "Devices with Removable Storage (1)"

 

Easy to resolve Go into disk management, shrink your C drive, create an extended partition. Done.

 

not so easy, as Hp already created maximum four partitions, therefor, you have to delete one partition before create another. for me I just shrink the C and expand the D (recovery), the only disadvantage of this is whenever I'll use Hp recovery all data stored in D will be gone, so you will have to keep that in mind.

 

my hp had only one partition too besides D which is where the recovery files are, but its really easy to shrink C and add another partition, in my case "F", which is what I did, now I have C and F for storage and D = recovery

I dont see what the problem is.

 

From my experience, HP ships (most? all?) Windows 7 laptops with 4 partitions already on the hard disk -- 'system' (approx 200mb), 'OS', 'recovery', and 'HP_Tools'. If received this way, additional partitions cannot be created (neither primary nor extended). Thus, creating a "data" partition/drive requires not only shrinking the OS partition, but deleting one of the other three before creating the new partition. Deleting the 'recovery' or 'HP_Tools' partition is the simplest, but each has an impact on intended functionality. It is possible to delete the 'system' partition without affecting functionality in any way, but you need a copy of a Windows 7 installation disk to boot the computer and do a "repair", recreating the 'system' files/folders on the OS partition and reconfiguring the master boot record.

 

Do a minimal system recovery from the recovery media. I did that and only have three partitions, system, OS, HP_Tools.