

These features help users to maximize the performance and lifetime of their SSD(s). In addition, Samsung Magician provides different features depending on the Samsung SSD model(s) in use, such as System Compatibility, Performance Benchmark, Performance Optimization, Over Provisioning, Secure Erase, and Data Security. Samsung Magician software is developed and distributed exclusively for owners of Samsung SSDs (Solid State Drives). This partition is hidden in Disk Management but is shown in diskpart.Samsung Magician is designed to help users easily manage their Samsung SSD(s) and conveniently update the firmware as well as optimize their SSD(s) for performance and reliability.

Note that you will also see another small partition ( Microsoft Reserved Partition, usually 16MB) as partition 3 just before the C volume.

In this case the code can be checked in Wikipedia Partition type page (here 83 is Linux) Note that if you had a MBR not GPT disk then diskpart would show a 2 digit code like this for the Type rather than the long GUID above : DISKPART> detail partition Here the type is 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 which if you check the Wikipedia GUID partition table page it will tell you it is Linux. There is no volume associated with this partition. Partition 7 is now the selected partition. Next show detail of the selected partition to find the Type. Select the disk you are interested in, then the select the partition. The easiest way to make sure is to go to diskpart from command prompt. Disk Management will not tell you if these partitions are Linux (although from your description 5 and 6 almost certainly are).Īll it can tell you is that the partitions exist and the filesystem type (for example EXT4 or whatever you formatted them) is not recognized by Windows while it's own filesystem NTFS is.
