I have "upgraded" a friends crippled Toshiba Satellite Laptop (Model #C875D-S7330) by replacing the 500GB drive with a 240GB SSD and then updating W8 that come with the Laptop to W8.1 Update 1. I used Acronis 2014 to backup the 500GB Hard Drive and Restore it to the SSD. The system has new life! It almost runs fast enough to be acceptable.
Since all the recoverable OEM stuff on the system is now obsolete or at least I do not ever want to go through the 100+ W8 updates and then W8.1 store upgrade and then Update 1 again I am curious what hidden partitions I can delete to clean up the SSD. I have included a screen shot of the partition structure.
W8.1.1 will only let me delete the first 450MB partition and the last 9.35GB partition. Can I use DiskPart to delete the 260MB EFI partition and the third 450MB partition? I have two desktop W8 systems set up using MBR and they only have the System Partition. The Laptop is set up with the GPT structure. I'm willing to settle on leaving the first Recovery partition and the EFI partition alone but I would like to Delete the other two recovery partitions at the end so I can add the space to the C: partition and/or create a D: for Data.
I'm new to the "store bought systems" since I have always "built my own" so I would appreciate some input on how to proceed.
Since all the recoverable OEM stuff on the system is now obsolete or at least I do not ever want to go through the 100+ W8 updates and then W8.1 store upgrade and then Update 1 again I am curious what hidden partitions I can delete to clean up the SSD. I have included a screen shot of the partition structure.
W8.1.1 will only let me delete the first 450MB partition and the last 9.35GB partition. Can I use DiskPart to delete the 260MB EFI partition and the third 450MB partition? I have two desktop W8 systems set up using MBR and they only have the System Partition. The Laptop is set up with the GPT structure. I'm willing to settle on leaving the first Recovery partition and the EFI partition alone but I would like to Delete the other two recovery partitions at the end so I can add the space to the C: partition and/or create a D: for Data.
I'm new to the "store bought systems" since I have always "built my own" so I would appreciate some input on how to proceed.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- W.8.1 Pro Update 1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Custom
- CPU
- 3770K
- Motherboard
- ASRock Z77 OC Formula
- Memory
- GSkill 2400-10
- Graphics Card(s)
- None
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung S27B350
- Screen Resolution
- 1920X1080
- Hard Drives
- Mushkin Chronos DX-7 240GB, WD Raptor 250Gb, 3 -WD Raptors 500GB
- PSU
- Seasonic X750
- Case
- Corsair 800D
- Cooling
- Swiftech Apogee HD 3X120 Rad
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Sidewinder X4
- Mouse
- Microsoft Exporer 2.0
- Browser
- IE11
- Antivirus
- Malwarebytes