Lenovo D: Drive

Greetings -

I recently received my Lenovo Ideapad y470.

The hard drive already has 4 partitions -

421GB - Windows 7
200mb - Partition created by Windows 7 (Explain please)
28.9GB - Lenovo D: drive - Has two folders: Applications (preinstalled, not new stuff) and drivers.
The rest (idk amount) is the OneKey Recovery

Is the D: drive necessary? How would I go bout moving the items to C:?
I am planning to have a 130gb Windows 7, 70gb Ubuntu, and 300gb shared. I guess the 200mb would fit in there somewhere.

That means that the OneKey Recovery should be imaged/cloned (and then deleted) and moved to an external, and the D: needs to go. (Maximum of 4 primary partitions on a disk).

Please explain.

Thanks,

[::AP::]

 

The 200MB partition is where the Boot Manager of the Windows 7 resides in. The D: Partition is there if you want a fresh install and you need the drivers. The recovery partition is there if something went wrong (program destroyed the file system) and can be restored to the last working state.

 

Thanks AESdecryption.

I am going to guess that I SHOULD NOT delete the 200mb partition.
I can, however, backup the Lenovo D: Partition to my external and delete it, right?
I can backup the recovery partition and delete it also?

(What would be the best way to back it up?)

I just need to make room for 2 primary partitions.
I have gotten a taste of Windows 7, and I like it, but I do miss Ubuntu.

Thanks,

[::AP::]

 

1. Do not delete that 200MB partition.

2. It would be a good idea to backup all data (Copy/Paste every file to a external HDD or burn DVDs w/ the data) on the D: Partition and you could wipe it out later to add to your Ubuntu partition.

3. To delete or edit the D: partition, go to the Start Menu >> right click on the "Computer" >> Manage >> Disk Management (wait for the HDD to identify itself) >> right click on the D: partition and select "Delete Volume"

4 *Optional*. To add more space to you Ubuntu partition, right click the C: partition and select "Shrink Volume" and select how much you want for your Ubuntu partition.

5 *Optional*. Boot into Ubuntu LiveCD/DVD and select the empty partition for Ubuntu installation. After install is complete, the GRUB menu will have Ubuntu and the Windows Boot Loader as an option to boot to during startup.

 

So i deleted my D: Drive and booted ubuntu on it not thinking of what could happen. for i thought it was just all my system backups thats were booted on it. When i boot my laptop it shows the lenovo sign and goes to a blank screen that says
BootMNG is missing
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart. How do i repair this. the lady online says i need to reinstall win7 or get the recovery disk. What if i just boot Ubuntu?

 

Not the cleverest thing to do.

You need a Windows disc which you can repair the bootmgr from. You load it up as if you were going to install windows, and choose to repair windows, or go to the command line. Search on Google, there's a bunch of FAQs.

 

Hasn't the 200 MB partition been created by Microsoft Office?