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    Toshiba P200 with four partitions - which one can I delete?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by mjschmidt, Jan 15, 2009.

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    I have a P200, and recently when trying to repartition so I could dual boot I discovered that my laptop came with 4 factory created partitions, so I can't create another one in Vista.

    In order I have:
    1. Unnamed Partition (Says Toshiba EISA volume - 1.46 GB)
    2. C: drive (173 GB)
    3. D: drive (5.88 GB)
    4. Unnamed Partition (5.34 GB)

    (See image here: http://www.webrochures.ca/partitions.jpg)

    I have read elsewhere that when you choose your primary language at setup, the other language files (in this case French) are deleted, and that those deleted language files _would_ have been on one of the extra partitions. I'm just not sure which one.

    I can see my D: drive in Computer, and it contains folders that can only be viewed when "Hide System Files" is turned off. However, when I try to open these folders to see what is inside, I get an access denied error message (Yes, I am logged in as the admin).

    I can not see the 4th unnamed partition in Computer, so I can't see if anything is there, but in Computer Management > Disk Management it says that the unnamed drive has 5.34 GB free of 5.34 GB, so I assume there is actually nothing there.

    Finally my question: Can anyone tell me what all these extra partitions are for? Specifically, is it safe to delete one of them? Which one? I have already made my recovery discs, but if I can keep the recovery partition, I would prefer to do so. Does anyone know which of these partitions is actually the one that held the alternate language files? What is the EISA partition?

    Thanks!
     
    mjschmidt, Jan 15, 2009
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    Ok, well, apparently no one here knew the answer to this (or was willing to share) but I figured it out for myself, so just in case someone else is looking for the same thing, here it is:

    On _MY_ Toshiba P200 (purchased in Canada), the D: drive partition was empty. It would appear to have contained the French language files that would have been deleted when I chose English at initial startup (this is also what Toshiba support told me).

    I deleted the D: partition, and it seems not to have affected the operation of my laptop, of course I haven't tried restoring using the hidden partition, so I am assuming the english restore files are there.
     
    mjschmidt, Jan 20, 2009
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