Hello,
Yesterday I received my Alienware 17 with 1TB HDD/80GB SSD hybrid within. I quickly installed a 500 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, installed Windows 8.1 and drivers and will be using this as my main drive. I formatted the former Windows partition, but in Disk Management I noticed a number of partitions.
I've attached a screenshot of the drives in question. I would like to know if there is a way to clean up these drives, or if I should just leave them as they are - I'm worried about messing up the hybrid. Also, I don't really know how the Intel Rapid Storage utility works so I didn't want to mess about with that.
Any help you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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Yesterday I received my Alienware 17 with 1TB HDD/80GB SSD hybrid within. I quickly installed a 500 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, installed Windows 8.1 and drivers and will be using this as my main drive. I formatted the former Windows partition, but in Disk Management I noticed a number of partitions.
I've attached a screenshot of the drives in question. I would like to know if there is a way to clean up these drives, or if I should just leave them as they are - I'm worried about messing up the hybrid. Also, I don't really know how the Intel Rapid Storage utility works so I didn't want to mess about with that.
Any help you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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