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    W700 HDD partioning

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by gbporkpie, Mar 6, 2010.

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    gbporkpie Notebook Enthusiast

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    My W700 came with the hard drive partitioned in three parts:

    C: - a huge 287GB partition where Windows is located.
    S: - a small 10GB partition where there's some backup things
    Q: - a tiny 2GB where there's also some backup boot things

    This seems so weird to me. I'm accustomed to having a ~80gig partition for the OS and then leaving the rest for various media and other things that take a lot of space. But the Vista Disk Management tool will only let me shrink the huge C: partition by only 120GB, after which it'll still be too big/unpractical. Why? So weird.

    Also how important are the backup/boot things on the other HDD's, should I go through the trouble of storing them on a DVD or something? I'd be able to find them somewhere online surely if things come to that?
     
    gbporkpie, Mar 6, 2010
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    bumping this.
     
    gbporkpie, Mar 7, 2010
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    Found the ThinkPad clean install guide, which answers my questions. :p
     
    gbporkpie, Mar 7, 2010
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