Samsung 530U3C clean system installation

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Published on 2012-11-22T20:46:47Z Indexed on 2012/11/22 23:01 UTC
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I have bought Samsung 530U3C notebook with i5-3317/12GB RAM/500GB HDD/24GB ExpressCache/Windows 8 preinstalled. I would like to install my own clean version of Win8. But I would like to preserve recovery partition. I will sell this laptop in probably 1-1.5 year and I would like to be able to restore 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 looks like below (sorry for non English screen):

http://i.stack.imgur.com/p4W6t.jpg

DISC 0:

500MB - recovery partition
300MB - system partition
442.22GB - Drive C: - Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary partition
21.64GB - recovery partition
1.00GB - recovery partition

DISC 1:

9.00GB - primary partition
13.24GB - primary partition

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

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

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