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cheers jellybean Thats helped alot i will format the Data and C drive ... delete both drives and make one c: drive . How do i go about making a recovery drive as this would be wise to do.

I have just recieved a Toshiba Satallite Pro P300-1EX preloaded with Vista home premium. Which as all been up to dated by me through windows and microsoft update. So soon as i got it i went into the computer managemet and opened the disc management. Here i found there are three disk partitions these where lables as so: Volume Layout Type FileSys Status Capacity FreeSpace %Free Simple Basic Healthy (EISA Config) 1.45GB 1.46GB 100% Data (E:) Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Primary Parti) 54.29GB 49.03GB 90% Vista (C:) Simple Basic NTFS Healthy( System,Boot,Page ect) 56.03GB 18.12GB 32% and of course CD-ROM 0 DVD (F:) Now when i go into the 'Computer' off the desktop and hit properties! i get: Vista (C:) 18.1GB free of 56.0GB Data (E:) 49.0GB free of 54.2 GB My question is this: is the EISA partition for the system drivers which were preinstalled by Toshiba in its own partition? so i dont have to worry and if so how would i reinstall them if i did a format? This is what i would like to do: Reformat into one hard drive and load windows 7 ultimate and then load all the system drivers back on. The thing is i dont have a system disk... i got only the laptop with everything preinstalled by the prior owner of ebay

hi thanks for your future help its nice to be here