Device maintenance and repair
7.4 Installing the software
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7.4.2.2
Partitioning in Windows 7 Ultimate
You will need to reconfigure the partitions after installing a new drive, to repair corrupt
partitions or to change the partitioning.
Partitioning of the HDD or SSD
In delivery state, the following default partitions are set up on the HDD or SSD for the
Windows 7 Ultimate operating system:
Partition
Name Size of data medium
File system
< 54 GB
>54 GB
>100 GB
Primary
Boot
100 MB
100 MB
100 MB
Automatically set up by installation
program
Second
System 40 GB
50 GB
100 GB
NTFS not compressed
Third
Data
Remainder Remainder Remainder NTFS not compressed
7.4.2.3
Adapting partitions in Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Embedded Standard 7
With the disk management, you can adapt the partitioning of your drives.
You can reduce or delete an available partition to acquire unassigned memory space, which
you can use to set up a new partition or to increase an existing partition.
Note
Data lost in the case of deleting a partition!
If you delete a partition, all the data on this partition is lost.
Back up your data before you change partitions.
Requirement
You are logged on as an administrator.
Reduce partition
A partition can only reduced when sufficient space is available.
1.
Click with the right mouse button on the partition to be reduced and click on "Reduce
size".
2.
Follow the instructions.
