I bought a used 2720 that the previous user reformatted using the Recovery Disk before sending it to me. It has a Samsung 32GB mSATA solidstate drive that is integral to a 2TB 7200 HDD. The HDD is Drive 0 Partition 1. The mSATA drive (Drive 1) is divided into four (4) partitions.
The problem is he installed Windows 8 Pro OS on the 32 GB drive, along with a 300MB recovery partition and a 99MB EFI partition. Consequently there is no space left to update the OS or add programs in their conventional default location (C://...).
I used the Recovery Disk to format Drive 0 Partition 1, which is the 1863GB HDD. I also formatted the 32GB mSATA Drive 1 Partitions 1,2, and 4 (would not let me format D1P3 as it's type was MSR (Reserved). Now, i find that I cannot install Windows 8 to D0P1 as it tells me that this drive has an MBR partition table and that on EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.
Can someone help me understand how to install the OS on the D0P1 drive. I would also like help to reformat the mSATA drive to a single partition and designate it as the swap drive.
Thanks!!
John