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    RC512, what's with the C and D drive?

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by pcm2a, Aug 4, 2011.

  1. pcm2a

    pcm2a Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have just picked up a couple month old RC512, with receipt from best buy, off the great craigslist for $600. Pretty good right :)

    The first thing I did was use the Samsung Recovery 5, which seems neat for backups, to restore it to the defaults.

    Next I took a peek and there is a C: with around 270 gigs, D: with 350 gigs, and a Recovery partition that is the rest. Obviously I will leave the recovery partition alone.

    What is important to keep on the D: and what can I blow away? Also what is the purpose of these files?

    DIR: There are two directory with alpha-numeric names
    - one is dated months ago and is about 40 megs
    - one is dated yesterday when i restored and is 200 megs
    DIR: SamsungRecovery - 26 gigs
    - Why do I have a recovery partition if this is here?
    DIR: SystemSoftware - 3.7 gigs
    FILES:
    - bunches of .tmp, I can probably delete these
    - bunches of eula.txt, I can probably delete these
    - some install exe, cab and msi files, not sure what these are and are dated 2007

    It is irritating that it is not just all on one drive partition.
     
    pcm2a, Aug 4, 2011
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    SRS puts the user backups on the D drive because a full system restore will wipe C: . Unless you regularly make backups, I recommend moving your users folder to D: so that it won't get overwritten if you restore C:.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Aug 4, 2011
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