OEM partition on new Win8 laptop
 

I've just got a new HP laptop with Windows 8 and want to partition my drive as I like to have separate logical drives to use.

When I run disk management I see the following:

Healthy (Recovery Partition) 400MB
Healthy (EFI System Partition) 260MB
RECOVERY(D) Healthy (OEM Partition) 22.83GB
RECOVERY(D) Healthy (OEM Partition) 22.83GB
Windows(C) Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash. 907.91GB

I have 2 questions:

1) Why does the D drive appear twice?

2) When I try to shrink the C drive it only allows me to free 463712MB leaving 465990MB allocated to it. I want to make it smaller. Is this related to the presence of the D drive, or is there something else going on?

I'm not too bothered about the D drive being there, I just want to get the C drive split into 3 logical drives of roughly similar size.

Assembled in Ireland, to be sure, to be sure!

SD

That is one of the prime reasons I will never have another HP laptop. The other is being let down by the infamous re-balling issue. Shame, I was predisposed to like them before that.


I spent ages trying to move hidden files in C so the partition could be smalerized. No problem at all on the Vaio, the hidden bits are just that: Hidden.

You could I suppose create recover discs and strip your hard drive of all the tosh. Partition first, and then download OS and apply your Number to it. Anyone know if that will work with W8?

I'm now on a new (ex demo) ASUS Ultrabook. It has electric drive, so I'm not sure about partitions. What's more, I'm having my first bash at W8. Not too bad at first, but then hitting resistance to getting things as I want them. I have permission to load 8.1 or W7 downgrade without losing my right to return said item. Good old American return policy.


another edit to see if it leaves that message. Hooray! It didn't :ok:

Resizing the system partition is extremely difficult within Windows unless it's purely extending it to a free area of disk next to the partition. Anything else and you'd need to boot into GParted to do it.

Make sure you have a backup first :ok: