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Got partitions messed up
I tried to resize an existing partition on my new Win 8 computer. I just made everything worse. Now I have about 4 partitions if I look at MY COMPUTER, and I see even more partitions if I look at DISK MANAGEMENT. Question.....if I use the RESTORE THE COMPUTER TO ITS FACTORY STATE function, will the partitions also be reset the way they were, or will ONLY the software be restored ??
Thanks, Mike
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Everything will be reset back to how it was out of the box.
Back up all your important files, photos, etc first as they will all be deleted.
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Update, well I did that Recovery to original state thing. After about 4 hours I was surprised to see I still had those 5 partitions. I thought the computer would be RESET to the way I got it out of the box, but it was not. Anyway, I downloaded Acronis to try to merge all those partitions, but when it was installing I got a message that said it was not compatible with Dynamic discs, what ever that meant. Then i downloaded EASE US, that worked great. I was able to merge those 5 partitions into one partitions. Now that i think about it, I probably should have kept two partitions, instead of merging everything into one. Oh well, I will leave everything alone for now. Now i just have to download all those updates again, but that is OK. Happy camper, Mike