Hidden Partitions

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Have a fairly new Dell laptop that I haven’t hosed yet. Just noticed today that disk management shows the 2 recovery partitions and the oem partition as 100% free space. Is this because they are hidden?

Rich

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Either they are hidden [usual] or they are truly empty [unusual].

Did you make the Factory Restore/Recovery discs/USB Thumb/Flash drive when prompted? Good to do so in the case of a HDD catastrophe. If not it can still be done.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right," ask "Am I doing the right things?"

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They are hidden, only show in disk management. Have not had an HDD catastrophe yet. The only thing I’ve done is resize my C partition using Partition Wizard which I’ve never had a problem with.
I’ll just assume they show as empty because they’re hidden.

Thanks,
Rich

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Rich,

They are not Hidden, they just have not been assigned drive letters (there is a difference).

Windows Disk Management reports them as empty:
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However, EaseUS Partition Master tells a different story!
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Note: This was done on a Dell XPS 8700 w/Win 8.1 Update 1.

HTH :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Have not had an HDD catastrophe yet.

I recommend leaving them alone before you do.

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I recommend leaving them alone before you do.

I second the motion. Unless one is absolutely certain one is absolutely doing the thing right [so that one does not have to do the “right thing”], ’tis best to leave hidden partitions alone. I learned from bad experience, then I followed Altex’s advice.

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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