Friday, March 1, 2019

windows - Samsung 530U3C clean system installation

I bought a Samsung 530U3C notebook with i5-3317/12 GB RAM/500 GB HDD/24 GB ExpressCache / Windows 8 preinstalled. I would like to install my own clean version of Windows 8. But I would like to preserve the recovery partition. I will sell this laptop in probably 1-1.5 years and I would like to be able to restore the settings to factory ones.


What is more, in the future I would like to install Ubuntu as well, but Windows goes first.


At the moment discs and partitions look like below (sorry for non English screen):


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DISC 0:



  • 500 MB – recovery partition

  • 300 MB – system partition

  • 442.22 GB – Drive C: – Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary partition

  • 21.64 GB – recovery partition

  • 1.00 GB – recovery partition


DISC 1:



  • 9.00 GB – primary partition

  • 13.24 GB – primary partition


Which partitions can I format and which of them should I preserve?


Can I format and merge partitions from that 24 GB ExpressCache and install Windows on it?

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