SSD Mystery Partitions

[Malinois]

Hi,
I just installed a 128GB SSD drive in my laptop as the boot drive.

The strange thing is that it is now reporting drive C as 88GB and in disk management there are two mystery unamed and totally empty partitions of 25GB each.

Obviously I would like the 50GB back. How do I do it or what's wrong.

My laptop is an Asus N75SL. I created Asus recovery disks for the windows 7 64bit. Install.

Cheers

Ian

 

[mad-max79]

It is possible that these partitions have your recovery information. Often very said using SSD space for something. Is it possible to delete the partition in disk management when you right click on it?

 

[yoji]

Well.. for s start - it does not add up..
25+25+88 = 138.. so something is def not right.

128Gb.. you will prob get about 111Gb usable.. so I am going to guess you only have a 25Gb and a 88Gb..

SSDs often like some "scrub space".. some spare space where they can use to do internal management. .but 25Gb sems a bit much.. check your manual.

You can go to disk management and make changes. but you probably want to get someone who knows what they doing to take a look . Its an area where you can mess up your Windows installation very easily - so don't fiddle if you don't know what you doing (you don't sound awfully comfortable with it all).

Cheers

 

[Malinois]

Hi,
You are right. Once I had reinstalled windows I put the old 500GB disk back in to format.

Disk 0 is drive C at 86GB with an unnamed 25GB partition.

Drive 1 is drive D at 460GB plus a 25GB partition.

So I take it 25GB has been stolen by Asus recovery software.

I can't understand why it's also taken it from drive D.

Thanks.
Ian