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agsteele

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Portege Z930 - SDD Partitions
Posted: 08-Aug-2012 18:52

I have just obtained a Portege Z930 and am exploring various things before I head onto installing software etc.

I noticed that the 128gb SDD was reporting just 100gb of space which seemed rather limiting.

So I checked and find the drive has four partitions.

1.46gb labelled Recovery Partition
100gb The main boot partition
4 gb labelled Hibernation Partition
13.5gb simply labelled primary partition

Given the somewhat limited space on the drive I am wondering whether the 13gb partition is doing anything useful and whether it could be removed and the space added to the main partition to gain a few extra gb...

Anyone know what the 13.5gb partition is for?

Thanks in advance.

Andrew

Akuma

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Registered: 12/08/08

Re: Portege Z930 - SDD Partitions
Posted: 09-Aug-2012 02:16

in response to: agsteele

Correct

Hi,

The 13GB partition is the Toshiba Recovery partition, which allows you to do a factory restore back to an out of box state.

You can delete it, but you should create a USB Recovery Flash Drive first using the Recovery Media Creator utility, just in case Windows gets corrupted and you need to run Recovery.

Macius

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Registered: 26/09/09

Re: Portege Z930 - SDD Partitions
Posted: 09-Aug-2012 08:44

in response to: agsteele

Helpful

Akuma is right. On this partition is saved recovery image that can be installed if something goes wrong with preinstalled OS. Don’t play with it and with partition structure before you have created recovery media.

Please read user’s manuals document and create USB recovery media that you can use for OS installation. After doing this you can even format this 13GB and use it for data saving.

agsteele

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Registered: 18/10/10

Re: Portege Z930 - SDD Partitions
Posted: 09-Aug-2012 11:24

in response to: agsteele

Many thanks for the clarification. It is what I had presumed but having further and smaller partition labelled 'Recovery Partition' slightly confused so I wanted to be sure what was what. The recovery media will be produced later today and then I'll feel more confident to remove the 13Gb space and allow it to be reused.

Andrew

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