Samsung Series 7 NP700X7C S01US Harddrive

So as not to flood current threads with possible off topic subject, I have decided to open a new thread regarding the contents of the Harddrive found in the NP700X7C S01US machine.

My Chronos 7 is not working (see other threads). I just received the harddrive so I can extract some data that was not saved during a File History. I also decided to look at the drive to see how/what it is formated/partitioned for. Here is what I have.

Disk 1 (being viewed as an external HD on another PC)
Capacity/Free Space/% Free
Basic
931.29 GB
Online

500 MB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)
500 MB / 500 MB / 100%

300 MB
Healthy (EFI System Partition)
300 MB / 300 MB / 100%

(G: )
904.60 GB NTFS
Healthy (Primary Partition)
904.60 GB / 633.28 GB / 70%

25.00 GB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)
25.00 MB / 25.00 MB / 100%

1.00 GB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)
1.00 GB / 1.00 GB / 100%

My question stems around the Recovery and EFI Partitions which show 100% free. I am concerned that those partitions are suppose to have "something" in them. Such as Windows 8 Restoration files or in one of the Recovery Partitions, the SRS.

I would ask those that have the Chronos 7 to please look at their Disk Manager and see if their disk is the same (EFI System Partition / Recovery Partition(s)) show the same as mine.

Thanks

 

Can you confirm which model number. I don't recall an X7C. Is it the G7C?

John

 

Brian, what you're seeing is normal for UEFI models like yours. Disk Management doesn't show reserved partition content -- it even hides the small Microsoft Reserved MSR partition altogether.

Minitool Partition Wizard is a free tool that will show you the full contents. We often recommend that.

 

Sorry, John, Z7C, not X7C.

Thanks Dannemand. I will use that tool and see what is there. I was looking for a tool to do just that. Glad you mentioned it.

 

Good tool!