Windows 7 Repartitioning, Understanding my Partitions

[webmanoffesto]

I have a laptop I’m using for an imaging tutorial that I’m doing. It’s a Lenovo Thinkpad L412. I would like to understand the present partitions before I repartition.

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I have:​

C: “Windows7_OS” 122GB free of 221 GB​

E: “SYSTEM_DRV” 500mb free of 1.17GB​

Q: “Lenovo_Recovery” 2.01GB free of 9.76GB​

So​

Q: is the Lenovo Recovery partition.​

C: apparently has all the System / Windows files and all the data files
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*Question: What is E: ?​

It has folders​

- INOV8LOG​

- MGGSTAT​

- preboot​

- Recovery​

- tvtos​

Which means it looks like a recovery partition, however “Q” is apparently the recovery partition.​

I would like one partition for System / Windows. And one partition for data.​

I guess I could shrink the “C” drive, then create “D” partition and move my data files to “D”.

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Does that seem like a good plan?

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[cybercore]

Try Lenovo forums:

Questions about deleting "System_Drv" partition - Lenovo Community

Lenovo Support - Drivers and software - ThinkPad

 

[patcooke]

Have you already burned your recovery disks from the recovery partition - and then created a second copy - if not you should do so asap - and certainly before you go deleting the recovery partition (which it is perfectly safe to do after burning recovery disks).

 

[webmanoffesto]

I created a Windows 7 Recovery disk. Can you be more specific about what you are recommending.

Have you already burned your recovery disks from the recovery partition - and then created a second copy - if not you should do so asap - and certainly before you go deleting the recovery partition (which it is perfectly safe to do after burning recovery disks).

 

[patcooke]

Sorry for delay - just back from a week abroad. Not recommending anything earth shattering - having made the recovery disk(s) you've done the most important thing. It's just that as a life long geek I've become a committed believer in Sod's Law so that when you most desperately need you recovery disks you find a read error on it - so I always make a second copy.