As a recovery drive lives in my tiny ssd (8.5GB of 32GB), I wanted to get rid of it. Windows 8.1 tells you to get a 8GB USB-Stick (or partition) so I did. My first mistake: A 8GB stick is too small, as it in fact has only 7.6GB or so and Win8.1 will not accept it. Arright, so a partition. I have a 500GB data drive in the system, that’s 470oomphGB in real life. I reduce it by 8.5GB to give me a 8.3GB formatted partition. (the original recovery partition is this size) I now have C: 32GB SSD (with an invisible 8.3GB recovery partition) E: 468GB HDD F: 8,3GB HDD so far, so good. I now select the „create a recovery drive“ option in Win8.1, it finds E: and F:. I choose F: It tells me “Warning, F: will be deleted” which is fine. I click OK and it starts to write the recovery drive. E: AND F: are formatted and repartitioned! I now have a 32GB recovery drive E: and the rest of the 500gb drive as non partitioned. My data is gone of course. Bwech, did I click something wrong? I reset the internal harddrive to be one partition 470ooomphGB again, and repeat the process above: The same result. Can anyone explain this behavior? Where’d I go wrong? Best Regards, Xir
