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Answer» My mother in law installed Windows 7 on an HP laptop (Vista was ORIGINALLY on there). There is a partition on the hard drive a little over 1 Gigabyte in SIZE, not being used by her. At first glance it appears that nothing is in it, but enabling hidden files to show up revelaed some operating system files in it.. I don't recall exactly what they were... $RecyclingBin and Some other file... I didn't want to delete the partition because I didn't want to mess up the Windows installation.. Does Windows 7 create this partition when being installed, for some reason ? I haven't any of the Windows 7 release documents. I know some Linux OSes create temporary partitions on the drive when being installed..No, Windows 7 does not create any partitions or install any "hidden files" on a separate partition. That was probably a recovery partition created by HP for the original Vista installation.hm, ok thanksSure.Quote from: Allan on August 02, 2010, 07:15:35 AM No, Windows 7 does not create any partitions or install any "hidden files" on a separate partition. That was probably a recovery partition created by HP for the original Vista installation.That notion occurred to me but 1GB does not seem correct for a recovery partition. On my Compaq laptop, which came with Windows Vista, the recovery partition is about 6.5GB.yes the laptop does have a separate recovery partition roughy 7 Gigabytes as you discribed. If it's not from Win 7, what is it ? Maybe I should have called this thread "The Phantom Menace" I would do some googling on this, but I'm at my wit's end with this DIAL-up connection... I feel like over 50 percent of the time I sit in this chair I'm waiting for pages to download, it's far worse when encrypted sites are visited. It sucks going from dsl to dial up... We are moving tomorrow where we will have dsl again Quote from: grandpa_simpson on August 03, 2010, 01:17:17 AM yes the laptop does have a separate recovery partition roughy 7 Gigabytes as you discribed. If it's not from Win 7, what is it ? Maybe I should have called this thread "The Phantom Menace"You said the computer originally came with Vista. So, that recovery partition would be for the original configuration of the computer with Windows Vista. And, why are you now acknowledging a recovery paritition of "roughy 7 Gigabytes"? You previously said "There is a partition on the hard drive a little over 1 Gigabyte in Size". Quote If it's not from Win 7, what is it ? I was reffering to the 1 Gig partition when I said this.. Sorry about the confusion... There are three partitions on the drive.. The Active Partition C:\, the recovery partition (7 Gig), and the mystery 1 Gigabyte partition, which has hidden operating system files in it..What are the files in this partition? I'm wondering if it is a boot partition. SEEMS pretty big for a boot partition, but I've seen some pretty large boot partitions before when os upgrades were involved. In the 1 Gigabyte mystery partition, as I put it, there are only two files/folders... I'll try to get them and post back, I don't remember off hand what they were... |
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