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    1000HE partitions

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by LtKD118, May 21, 2009.

  1. LtKD118

    LtKD118 Newbie

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    So I took the advice that you gave me and bought a 1000HE, and I have to say I am impressed with the thing. One question though. The hard drive on it is set up in 4 partitions. A 47mb partition with nothing in it, A 82.82gb partition with Xp on, A 61.29gb partition with nothing on it and a 4.89gb partition with the label "PE". Would it be safe if I format the hard drive to be just one big partition or would that do someting horribly bad to it?
     
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    LtKD118 Newbie

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    Thanks for the reply. Just another quick question. What's this thing like running Windows 7? Would it be fine with just 1gb of RAm or should I wait until I upgrade it?
     
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    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    A note, the ~5GB partition with label "PE" could be the recovery partition. So if you want to recover the system from the HDD in the future, don't remove that one.

    Perhaps the best solution is to resize the system partition to a size that fits your needs best, and resize the data partition accordingly so that all the HDD is occupied. And leave the other two partitions untouched.

    (the 47MB partition might actually have something in it, but it might be formatted using a filesystem that Windows does not recognize)
     
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  4. Drakker

    Drakker Notebook Enthusiast

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    Both the 47mb and the 5gb partitions are used for recovery. You need to keep them both, check the user manual, it's all in there. ;)

    As for the big 80gb and 60gb partitions, you can join them without worries.
     
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    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    There has been a long debate about this on the EEE Users forum. It is thought that the smaller of the two partitions deals something with quick boot and the later is a recovery partition. On the HA, many users mentioned that these were both empty for some reason and/or they had 3 partitions (no PE part). If the PE partition is full, do as Drakker has mentioned and check the manual. I would leave the initial 47mb partition as a matter of precaution, in the case it is linked to the quick boot function/other.
     
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    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Agreed, I would advise though against using just one big partition. Having your data on a second, non-system partition can help if your Windows decides to die.
     
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    mrsamsa Notebook Evangelist

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    All questions have been answered so far except the Windows 7 one:

    I put Windows 7 RC on the ~60GB Partition of mu 1000HE, it was totally compatible with everything (after following a guide for a few drivers) but with 1GB of RAM it was a bit sluggish. Not horrible, and impressive given that I had all the bells and whistles on, but I took it off and will use XP until I get more RAM.
     
    mrsamsa, May 22, 2009
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