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    Asus admin partition and clean Vista install?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Windaria, Apr 12, 2007.

  1. Windaria

    Windaria Notebook Enthusiast

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    OK... just got my pair of F3JP laptops and I have a couple of questions/issues.

    First, I see that it has an administrative partition of some sort... about 4.33 gigs. This is quite a bit, and I was wondering, am I able to delete it? Will this cause any problems? I know, for example, that with the old Compaq computers that they would store the Bios interface functions in the bloody system partition and that when you wiped it you would have problems... tell me Asus didn't do this? Also, if I do wipe it, can I restore it if I were to wipe the laptop and run the recovery CD/DVDs that came with it (whatever they are)?

    Next... it came with Vista Home Premium... um... not sure what I think of that yet, not too happy so far, but oh well. Anyway, with this came the joy of wondering, can I use the CD/DVD (whatever they are, haven't actually looked at them yet) that came with the laptop to create a clean OS install, or do I have to use them as recovery disks?

    I had read the threads that talked about doing this with XP, but haven't seen anything regarding this with the Vista disks yet...

    I am asking because what I want to do is wipe the drive, fdisk (or the equivalent thereof) and put two 20 gig partitions and one large partition. Have the two 20 gig partitions be used for Windows and Linux, and have the large one as file storage.

    For that matter, it just struck me... can Vista finally read EXT3, or will I have to make my large partition NTFS?

    Any help would be MOST appreciated.
     
    Windaria, Apr 12, 2007
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    Windaria Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any ideas regarding a clean vista install?
     
    Windaria, Apr 12, 2007
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    gusto5 Notebook Deity

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    As for the first post, the partition should be a recovery partition (if its like all of the other Asus laptops, which it should be). It's beneficial if you want to recover your laptop without using the recovery disks.
     
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    Yes, the recovery partition works much faster than the CD's, plus CD's are much more a subject to scratches and wear.
    Vista will not support EXT3 (It's obvoius but I think there are some utils that allow you to read and write - I found one utility that could read an EXT3 drive but sometimes had difficulties with writing (e.g. With reiserfs))
     
    mujtaba, Apr 13, 2007
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