Really weird partitions?

Hi everyone.

I have just upgraded from Windows 7 RTC Ultimate to Windows 7 RTM pro.

The weird things is, that there are two hidden partitions:

There are two hidden partitions and they have both 100% free disc space. I know one of them is the recovery from Acer, but it says nothing of the disc space is used ! Luckily, I have a recovery CD.

Another weird thing is in Auslogic Disc Defrag:



There are a removal drive and it's leading to the Windows folder on the C:\ drive O_O?

I'm a bit confused.

Kind Regards powerfull499

 

The space has probably been deleted. I installed windows 7 and I cannot press alt f10 and restore from hard drive anymore, I have to use the disks, glad I made the disks before installing windows 7! I just deleted the partitions and made the extra space, dont really need it as my laptop has 1000GB anyway but I sort of wanted to clean it up

 

Thanks Nick! ! I think mine got deleted too. How to delete them and give the extra space to my C, or D drive? Can I use a program?

 

Bring Up My Post!

 

LOL! Mine still locked because while installing Windows 7, I have those 2 partition live-on. I only clear-up C: for the installation.
I still can access the 2 partitions if I roll-back to OEM Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit with Acer's Bloatware.

 

Just right click and delete the partitions, then expand your C or D drive.

 

haha same thing happened here

maybe ill try out ubuntu or something on it... is 13.5GB enough for it?

 

That is more than enough for Ubuntu. Just beware, if you delete any partitions placed BEFORE your Windows partition, you may have problems.

Also, the Windows 7 boot loader usually goes on the FIRST accessible partition. That on mine means its actually on the recovery partition and if I delete it, I can no longer boot Windows.

So generally its a huge risk deleting any partition that is positioned before your Windows C: drive unless you know how to reinstall the boot loader. Deleting any partition AFTER your C: drive should not cause any problems at all though.

 

how can i tell if the partition comes before or after my windows partition?

 

Thanks for the answer.

Hmmm. Does it mean I have to reinstall the whole system.. AGAIN!?

So, I just put my boot dvd in my drive, come to the screen, and delete the two partitions, and then expand the C or D drive?

 

I only choosed on the C drive too, it's really weird, I have never formatted ANY of them, luckily I have a recovery DVD.

 

Sorry for double post, but I fixed it!

I downloaded Easeus Partition Master (Free utility), and extended my C-drive. As the other guy said, I was unable to boot windows. Luckily I had made a backup on the D-drive, so I just reinstalled Windows.

Thanks for the help everybody!