Bit hard to see cus of the flash on the camera... should just take a Screen Shot, in future.
Anyway, no real mystery... from what I can tell, you have a System Drive, another Drive, could be treated as Data Drive, the Samsung Recovery Partion & Win7's little 100MB partition. Use the 1st 2... leave the 100MB alone & leave the Recovery Parition alone... ya might need it someday; other than that, don't worry about them or let seeing them there bother you. Just carry one concerned w/ C:\ & D:\
Cheers,
Drew
SDA1,2,3 and 4 are primary partitions. I know in the past Windows could only use 4 primary partitions, so if you wanted to use more you would have to make an extended partition then make more under that partition. So if you wanted 10, then you would make 4 primary then an extended and 6 partitions under the extended. SDA1 is the boot for 7, where the boot.ini and dos.sys is located. SDA4 is the recovory partition. SDA2 looks to be the C: partition. SDA 3 and SDA5 looks to be a mirrored D: drive. Like RAID, but on a single drive. Not sure why, but that is what it looks like.
Something is wrong here. You cannot have 4 primaries and 1 extended. As soon as you try to create a 5th partition if 4 primaries are present, you get dynamics.So I am looking at 4 PRIMARY partitions (sda1,sda2,sda3,sda4) and 1 Logical partition (sda5).
Dell is a big offender of using up all of the primary partitions. I've seen a lot of people complaining about them.
Joe
Something is wrong here. You cannot have 4 primaries and 1 extended. As soon as you try to create a 5th partition if 4 primaries are present, you get dynamics.
Why don't you post a proper snip of your full disk management window so that we can see what's going on. Those pics are useless.
Thank you all for the assistance. I prefer as much detail as possible so don't worry.
So let me see if I understand what is being said.
sda1 is the boot partition for Windows 7.
sda2 is the partition that would be listed as the C: drive in windows.
sda3 is an extended partition in which the remainder of my disc space is allocated.
sda5 is mirroring sda3 (for some reason) and would be seen as the D: drive in windows.
sda4 is the recovery partition for Samsung.
So I am looking at 4 PRIMARY partitions (sda1,sda2,sda3,sda4) and 1 Logical partition (sda5).
So if I want to partition further and not lose my Win7 installation or Recovery partition I should only use the space available on sda3 (extended) and sda5? Those would be what is listed as the D: drive in Windows 7?
Thanks