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    Windows 8 - Windows 7 FIle Recovery disk image fails on X202E

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by michaelk42, Jan 1, 2013.

  1. michaelk42

    michaelk42 Newbie

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    My father just got the Best Buy X202E and the first thing I wanted to do was use the File History/Windows 7 File Recovery tools to create a system repair disc and system image. The repair disc generation worked fine, but when I went to have it make the system image it claimed a disc was full and shadow copy couldn't make the temp files it needed. Fresh out of the box, the laptop HD certainly wasn't full and there was 830GB+ on the USB backup drive so this made no sense to me...

    I have found some threads where this seems to be a common problem with Windows wanting more space than is available on a reserved system partition that isn't normally visible. I went to find it by booting from an Ubuntu DVD (an adventure requiring help from this thread) but the partitions aren't matching the go-to page I keep turning up for this problem. The NTFS and FAT32 I'm seeing in gparted all seem to be fine on space, but there's a mysterious extra partition it can't determine the format of that's 128MB and isn't in the how-tos I've found at all.

    I'm guessing it's the partition that's giving system image a fit, but I can't resize it in gparted without formatting it. Anyone seen this before? Is it safe to format and resize it? Do I need another tool for this because gparted just isn't seeing the partition correctly?
     
    michaelk42, Jan 1, 2013
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  2. Ipaqman

    Ipaqman Notebook Guru

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    I had the same issue creating a system image on an Asus X202E notebook. You can read about the 128 MB reserved partition in the Wikipedia.

    The Recovery partition was set to 600MB and is too small for the Shadow copy to work. Using EASUS Partition Master, I resized my C partition down by 200 MB. I then copied the 128 MB GPT reserved partition to the 200 MB of unallocated space toward the end of the space leaving the unallocated space before the copy. I then deleted the original 128 MB reserved partition and then resized the Recovery partition to 800 MB in size.

    I was then able to create a system image to the D: drive. It was about 30 GB in size.

    Be sure to backup your data before attempting this fix.
     
    Ipaqman, Mar 2, 2013
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