JWhite1089
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Hello all, this is my first post on EightForums and I am pleased to find such great forum for Windows 8 users! I have been using Windows 8 since December 2012 and I must say that I enjoy it quite a bit. Recently, for self education purposes, I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 to dual boot with Windows 8 UEFI. I ran into a bunch of problems and finally reformatted the drive to start over, but I have a question about the partitions listed on my HDD..
Are these the partitions that come from the HP factory with Windows 8 preinstalled? Here are the same partitions listed in Disk Management, with partition 3 hidden for some reason? Why is this?
So.. The first two partitions listed as 400MB and 260MB cannot be modified at all. If I right click, the only option I get is Help. Then C: and D: are my two primary. I could have sworn that these first two partitions were never there before, although I may be wrong. Also, partition 3 listed in the Command Prompt shot above is not listed in Disk Management. Why is it hidden? Notice also that Recovery (D: is listed twice in Disk Management, is this normal? And does Windows 8 normally create 5 partitions on preinstalled applications? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to figure out if I have done something to cause this or if they are supposed to be this way. Thanks!
Are these the partitions that come from the HP factory with Windows 8 preinstalled? Here are the same partitions listed in Disk Management, with partition 3 hidden for some reason? Why is this?
So.. The first two partitions listed as 400MB and 260MB cannot be modified at all. If I right click, the only option I get is Help. Then C: and D: are my two primary. I could have sworn that these first two partitions were never there before, although I may be wrong. Also, partition 3 listed in the Command Prompt shot above is not listed in Disk Management. Why is it hidden? Notice also that Recovery (D: is listed twice in Disk Management, is this normal? And does Windows 8 normally create 5 partitions on preinstalled applications? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to figure out if I have done something to cause this or if they are supposed to be this way. Thanks!
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- Microsoft Windows 8 (x64)
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- Laptop
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- HP Pavilion g6-2278dx
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- AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M APU with Radeon HD Graphics
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- Unknown
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- 4096MB DDR3 SDRAM
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