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    Samsung 530U3C clean system installation

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by mkas, Nov 22, 2012.

  1. mkas

    mkas Newbie

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    I have bought Samsung 530U3C notebook with i5-3317/12GB RAM/500GB HDD/24GB ExpressCache/Windows 8 preinstalled. I would like to install my own clean version of Win8. But I would like to preserve recovery partition. I will sell this laptop in probably 1-1.5 year and I would like to be able to restore settings to factory ones.

    What is more, in the future I would like to install Ubuntu as well, but Windows goes first.

    At the moment discs and partitions looks like below (sorry for non English screen):

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    DISC 0:

    • 500MB - recovery partition
    • 300MB - system partition
    • 442.22GB - Drive C: - Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary partition
    • 21.64GB - recovery partition
    • 1.00GB - recovery partition


    DISC 1:

    • 9.00GB - primary partition
    • 13.24GB - primary partition


    Which partitions can I format and which of them should I preserve?

    Can I format and merge partitions from that 24GB ExpressCache and install Windows on it?
     
    mkas, Nov 22, 2012
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  2. Nutty_

    Nutty_ Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm one step ahead! I formated all partitions and now Windows won't boot! Any thoughts?
     
    Nutty_, Nov 27, 2012
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  3. Dannemand

    Dannemand Decidedly Moderate Super Moderator

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    The steps in this post will fix the problem of being unable to boot after Win7 USB install, due to the SYSTEM partition being created on the iSSD (which isn't bootable).

    Works on Series 5 and Series 7.

    There is also this new thread by hanime from a few days ago on the subject.
     
    Dannemand, Nov 28, 2012
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