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Ok so apparently i am not up on things anymore. With prior builds/reformats I always gutted my HDs and used an enclosure with another computer to partition and format a HD to put back into another computer to install an OS so it is only the 2 partitions. The main for the OS and secondary for data storage. Well with an effort of doing so and doing the partitions in GPT, Windows 8 still would not see the partitions. Using windows 8 I had to delete the 100 GB partition and click "new" this created about 3 additional smaller partitions. After reading a little bit I understand slightly now that the GPT places partitions at the front and rear of the drive for prevention of data corruption. I am waiting for the install to complete so I can see what exactly will be available when using windows explorer.

This of course after I got a message saying a media driver was missing. After some "googling" with no real answer I just decided to restart and it worked in the manner I listed above. Was there a way I could have done this more proficiently? In my experience when using the Windows 7 or 8 disk to partition the HD It would not allow for only those two partitions that is why I gut the HD and attempted to do it that way. This is the first time I have experienced it STILL forcing the additional smaller partitions.

Yea that is typical these days. It should be a very small amount of space though that you lose, in comparison.

It's been a looong time since hard drive space was limited enough for this to really matter. I mean, with TB drives cheap and common (and 250GB+ being default), does anyone really care about 500 megs? With an SSD you might care a little more, but not by a huge amount. Also the recovery partition is actually useful these days :D

Bottom line, you did not do anything incorrectly. The GPT partitions are automatic, and so is the 300MB recovery partition.

LOOK MAN NOT THE POINT! lol I am a tad OCD :) Not to mention I had originally did it in MBR so had to redo it. The space isn't that big of deal. I am not a fan of being able to see the recovering in explorer. I am having more love for windows 8. It is def a pain without touch screen though. I think I will always prefer Windows 7 though from their recent three OS.

Like in Windows explorer? Mine don't show up there, just the data partition.

And now we'll all, shortly, have to adapt to Windows 10.

Nah, I'll just turn my dual-boot into a tri-boot. Win7, win8, win10. Course I'm keeping the desktop win 7 & linux.