Installation :: C Drive Has 3 Partitions - Is This Correct

Sep 1, 2015

I have attached an image of my Disk Management screen. Disk 0 doesn't look right to me. Is there a problem here? if there is, how do I correct this? I am running W10 and the C drive is a Samsung SSD drive.

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It looks like Windows 10 may not be appropriately setting the order for the partitions. the moment I left my original installation on my 1TB HHD intact, so that I can still have an operating PC, and find out some info on this.

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Aug 2, 2015

Upgraded my Win 7 Ultimate x64 to Win 10. Now when I went to perform a clean install of the Win 10 with USB created from Microsoft Media, take me through to the screen to partitions.

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I already have my pc updated with windows 10, I recently upgraded my hard drive with a samsung 850 pro ssd but i discovered that my recovery partition no longer works and when i try to do a system image windows says it cannot do it because files are missing . I used the samsung data migration software that came with my ssd, when i go to disk management it shows my three partitions which are

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