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Yes, the discs you create with Recovery Manager will do a full factory |
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restore on a blank hard drive, they will also re-create that recovery |
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partition. I think that the recovery partition is primarily just for |
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creating those discs. |
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-Zac |
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On 4/11/07, Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> That's what I was considering trying next. Does burning the recovery |
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> partition to a DVD via Recovery Manager create a full recovery disk, or does |
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> it require the funky 6.38 gig recovery partition? |
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> -Peter |
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> |
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> On 4/11/07, Zac <spdrmonkey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I have seen this, and I was able to get around it. I have an hp |
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> > laptop that was only available with vista, and I found that if I had |
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> > done anything other than boot the vista install, I would only get |
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> > about 1 g of space shrinking the drive with the vista tool. However, |
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> > from a fresh install, well, as fresh as you can get with the revert to |
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> > factory discs they provide these days, I was able to get my vista |
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> > partition down to 15gigs total. So, if you don't have anything |
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> > critical installed in vista, you may try reinstalling. Good Luck. |
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> > |
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> > -Zac |
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> > |
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> > On 4/11/07, Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > Yeah, I tried that but it only got me 587mb. Like Vista is taking up a |
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> 105 |
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> > > gig partition... I think what's happening is that there are files at the |
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> end |
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> > > of the partition as well as the front. Don't know. |
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> > > |
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> > > -Peter |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > On 4/11/07, Fred <gentoo@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > Peter Davoust wrote: |
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> > > > > That's a good idea, I'll try it. I'm not a Windows fan myself, but |
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> at |
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> > > > > least Vista looks cool. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > On 4/10/07, *Joe Menola* < menola@×××××××××.net |
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> > > > > <mailto:menola@×××××××××.net>> wrote: |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 4:15:17 pm Peter Davoust wrote: |
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> > > > > > Ok, so this is sort of a continuation of my previous question |
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> > > about |
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> > > > > > Xserver, HP decided to replace my laptop after a little |
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> technical |
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> > > > > support |
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> > > > > > issue, and now my PC has Vista on a 120 gig hard drive. The |
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> only |
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> > > > > problem is |
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> > > > > > that for some reason neither my Gparted Live cd nor my gentoo |
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> > > > > live cd can |
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> > > > > > resize the partition. I'd reinstall everything, but Compaq |
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> > > > > doesn't like |
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> > > > > > providing OS restore disks, and instead put all the data on a |
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> > > > > separate |
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> > > > > > partition. Most likely the restore disk will just setup the |
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> same |
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> > > > > partition |
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> > > > > > scheme as before anyway. I've tried using the Vista disk |
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> > > > > partition utility, |
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> > > > > > but it could only give me 587 mb in between the restore and |
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> OS |
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> > > > > partitions. |
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> > > > > > It's annoying, does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried |
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> chkdsk |
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> > > > > and defrag |
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> > > > > > already, but to no avail. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > The first thing I'd try is zipping the contents of c:\ |
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> drive>dvd, |
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> > > > > recreate |
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> > > > > your partitions and unzip to the smaller c:\ drive. I know this |
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> > > > > would work |
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> > > > > for ntfs. I know nothing about Vista though, and I'm fine with |
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> that. |
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> > > ;) |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > -jm |
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> > > > You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the |
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> > > > 'Disk Management' console program. |
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