New to forum, second post, howdy everyone.
I just bought a new G75VX-DS72 from Newegg 1/2/2014. As delivered:
G75VX-1.0
Win8 64, build 9200
UEFI Bios v204, 10/31/2012
16Gb (4x4Gb) Ram
Disk 0 LITEONIT 256Gb ssd, 5 volumes: 300mb EFI sys, 900mb Recovery, 95.39Gb NTFS OS (C:, 121.78Gb NTFS Data (D:, 20.01Gb Recovery
Disk 1 Hitachi 750Gb, 2 volumes: 349.32Gb NTFS Primary (E:, 349.32Gb NTFS Primary (F:
Optical Matsh*ta BD-CMB UJ160
GTX 670MX
Broadcom 802.11ac
I have several questions:
I want to update to latest drivers and ultimately to win 8.1
Didn't like the multiple partitions, so I deleted the second visible volumes on each disk (empty space?) and extended the C and E drives into the resulting unallocated space using windows disk management with no apparent problems. These became drives C and D, respectively and the operating system appears unaffected. I proceeded to update windows 8 as instructed in prep for win8.1 with the 90+ important updates and about 10 of them would not install. After troubleshooting, and performing some suggested fixes that didn't work but left the update system crippled, showing no update history and saying no updates have been installed (this is a problem with one of the fixes because the list of installed updates clearly shows the 80+ updates that had been installed), I found that manual install of each update worked on all but one (which is not needed for win8.1). Duiring this process I had refreshed (not reset) the computer twice by going to the General tab of PC settings. This was uneventful and seemed to work, restoring the operating system to the new larger C volume as expected with one exception.
Disk 0 (the boot SSD) now has three recovery partitions (5 total partitions) as follows:
300mb EFI sys, 900mb Recovery, 216.82Gb NTFS OS (C:, 350mb Recovery, 20.01Gb Recovery
I had extended the C drive into all available space. I did not notice the 350mb Recovery partition until after the second Refresh.
My question are:
Why three Recovery partitions? For that matter, why two in the first place?
Have I adversely affected my SSD's alignment? How can I easily check this?