How findout if all the partitions have been deleted and now a laptop that has Windows 8 operating system using Windows Vista with a shell IE 9?

I bought a laptop broken at a friend's House. It is not used for the operating system windows 8 and wanted to use the Windows Vista operating system. Son of friends put in place this laptop for it, which was new when she bought in a retail store. Is there a way I can find out whether all the partitions have been deleted during the installation of Vista? I still see window 8 logo that I sign as an administrator user on this laptop.

When I log on this computer, the previous owner of the screen name is the only one that appears. I go in Control Panel, click Add another account, then I see the screen name I posted. I could use the WiFi from my PC at home that Win 7 OS.

When I started working with the laptop, I was able to bring control of the camera. Now I thought that the version that I use does not allow this operation. Be happy with any Positive help with my problems.

Thank you

Phil W.

Hello

Start > type CMD

Right click on CMD and select run as administrator

Type diskmgmt.msc

Press enter

This opens where you can view the partitions on the disk management system

Who has installed Windows Vista, your son or friend?  Fact that they create a dual boot environment or reformat?

http://www.technorms.com/8438/Windows-8-create-hard-drive-partition

Multibooting requires separate partitions on the hard drive of your computer for each operating system.  To create and format a partition, see create and format a hard disk partition.

To check if a dual boot system in place, start > Type msconfig

Click on the Startup tab

You see two operating systems listed?  Windows 8, Windows Vista

http://www.groovypost.com/HOWTO/Microsoft/Vista/how-to-change-default-OS-for-dual-boot-system/

I think that Windows 8 has the following partitions

400 MB Partition Recovery (contains recovery information dated from before my upgrade)

  • 300 MB EFI System Partition
  • 350 MB Partition Recovery (contains information for recovery of my upgrade)
  • 17 GB Partition Recovery
  • 220 GB of Partition primary

Windows Vista has drive C and drive D

Done reformatting refers to a hard disk or partition that already has been formatted or that contains data on it. Reformatting a disk deletes all the data on the disk.

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