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G1s question before I reformat

Discussion in 'Asus' started by jewbilee, Jul 30, 2007.

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Hey guys, Ive been using my G1s for about 2 weeks now and I dont like having the 2 seperate partitions, especially when I need to transfer between them and it doesnt happen instantly as if they were 1 partition.

My question is, I tried using partition magic and it says that hard drive partition type is "BAD" so I figured I would reformat the harddrive all together. Now, how do I actually go about doing that on the G1s? Is it safe to do a reformat considering how we have that recovery partition as well? Any advice would be great.

jewbilee, Jul 30, 2007

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Just pop the 1st recovery disc in the OD and reboot the notebook. Then it will ask you if you want to do a restore and after you say yes, it'll give you a few options:

1) Restore C: and D:
2) Restore C: only
3) Merge C: and D: to C: and restore C:

Pick 3). I think it was those options, it's been a while, don't recall

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Ahhhh, awesome, thanks. Would I still need to the disk though? Cant I press like, f9 to just boot directly from the recorvery partition?

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