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    G1S Make your own Recovery DVD?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by cbs2186, Feb 29, 2008.

  1. cbs2186

    cbs2186 Notebook Guru

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    Is it possible to create your own recovery DVD using the recovery partition? I lost both my recovery dvd and my driver disk, but I want to remove the recovery partition. (I need to create two partitions to be able to dual-boot linux and the disk can only have 4 partitions.)

    Is this possible/a good idea?
     
    cbs2186, Feb 29, 2008
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    I've never heard it done but it should be theoretically possible. I wouldn't advise it though.
     
    E.B.E., Feb 29, 2008
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  3. MrWhereItsAt

    MrWhereItsAt Notebook Evangelist

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    If you can only do 4 partitions, with a starting three (C:, data D: and hidden recovery) and you want to add one for linux, what's the problem?

    I haven't seen a way to make a recovery disc from the partition, but I have found a download of the complete Vista install so you can make a clean Vista install disc. It's not illegal either - it's the activation number that is what you purchase and makes the OS work/install. I haven't yet tried to clean install Vista on my G1S, but I will once I've finished playing with my nice, fast, clean XP install. :)
     
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  4. cbs2186

    cbs2186 Notebook Guru

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    Linux requires two partitions to be installed, the Main OS partition, and a "Swap" partition (basically a RAM placeholder for standby and such, I gather).

    I can get a copy of Vista from my school fairly cheaply (about $15, I think) but it's the drivers that I'm most concerned with finding. Are these available anywhere online? For some reason, Asus's website is having a hard time loading for me right now.
     
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  5. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Oh now I see the problem. Actually, the disk can have any number of partitions; it's just that it can have at most 4 PRIMARY partitions. Usually I only have 1 primary partition, the OS (two if you count the recovery part), then I make an Extended Partition for the rest of the HDD, and then I can create any number of logical partitions in the Extended Partition.

    This should definitely solve the problem.
     
    E.B.E., Mar 4, 2008
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    There is a limit of four primary partitions, yes, but you can have more than four partitions by creating an extended one, then several logical partitions within the extended.

    If I recall correctly, the maximum number of partitions allowed in an IDE disk is 64.

    So don't worry about destroying the recovery partition unless you really need to free up that space; just create an extended partition, and logical ones within it for Linux. That's exactly how I have my dual-boot Vista/Ubuntu setup in a G1S, with Ubuntu's root and swap in logical partitions; works fine.

    Edit: Hah, E.B.E., that's what I call being in sync. ;)
     
    Gornoth, Mar 4, 2008
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