On 02/08/19 12:56, Panthera Tigris Altaica wrote:
My personal laptop has a 1TB spinning drive. I bought the laptop new
over six years ago. It was, then, fast, with a quad core i7, and 8 GB
RAM. The HD came with three partitions:

1 the emergency partition, under 50 GB with the emergency boot files
2 the OS boot partition, 390 GB, with Win 7 Pro. (I upgraded it to
Ultimate)
3 the data partition, about 500 GB, no OS.

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So how do I make the Win 7 partition NOT a system partition?

I suggest a clean install, from optical media. that should do it, and
will let you control everything. Just re-do ALL of the partitions. And
keep windows 7. Win-10-nic STINKS.

you could do this with a new hard drive more easily, I would think,
keeping the old one around as a backup.


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