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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on March 5, 2007, 7:27 pm
Please log in for more thread options On 3/05/2007, dw5437 posted this:
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> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
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>> On 3/03/2007, dw5437 posted this:
>>> Am using a Sony Viao vgc-rb60g with Media center and a Sony recovery disk.
>>> I mess with my computers a lot and sometimes hose them pretty badly, but I
>>> like to experiment, so that's life I guess. I just used the recovery disk
>>> to reinstall and the recovery disk took all of my 250GB drive. When I use
>>> fdisk or any other partition manager to shrink Media Center down to about
>>> 60GB it becomes unbootable. I tried the fixmbr command from a dos prompt
>>> and that doesn't work either. If I partition the hard drive in advance of
>>> using the recovery disk will that work or is there no way to get around
>>> this problem ?
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>> No surprises here.
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>> 1. Recovery disks typically recreate the state that your computer was
>> shipped in. I'd even say always, not typically.
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>> 2. Fdisk erases whatever is on the disk. Actually, it just recreates a
>> fresh directory structure, which has the same effect.
>>
>> The way to get around the problem is to buy some non-destructive
>> partitioning software, such as Partition magic is (or was? not sure).
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
>> letters617blochg3251
>> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
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>>
>> Thanks Gino, I will give Partiton magic a try.
Try answering *outside* of the quote characters. Otherwise, it looks
like you didn't answer.
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
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