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    hard disk partitioning and recovery cd on m40??

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by rahulm, Sep 12, 2005.

  1. rahulm

    rahulm Notebook Guru

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    i upgraded from xp home to pro...then i used partition magic 7 to create a partition...now i have 20gb on c drive and 35 on d....5gb is used on c drive...now is there any way i can create a recovery cd for c drive only....so that only my c drive is formatted and restored and d drive is not touched at all?? can i do this on the recovery cd provided with the laptop or do i have to create a new recovery cd?? if yes then what software should i use and how do i go about it??
    also how do i use the express media player??
     
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    sun272 Newbie

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    4 creating new recovery CD u can use Norton Ghost for example, but i guess there are many other manufactures as well. U need to create just image of the C partition and burn it to DVD. When u'll need to recover your partition u'll just boot with Ghost and restore image from DVD to C partition.

    Personally i did upgrade to Win Xp pro as well, but i have had problems (installing MS patches), so i restored my XP home again. U have some tips on upgrade to XP PRO on M40? U know anybody else with good experience on this one?
     
    sun272, Sep 17, 2005
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  3. rahulm

    rahulm Notebook Guru

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    i used a full version of xp pro to upgrade...having no probs at all...its wroking fine...

    so to create the image on dvd my c drive will have to be less than 4.7 gb rite???
     
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    sun272 Newbie

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    right. normally, fresh installation of windows XP + drivers + patches should not exceed 1GB of Ghost image, maybe later u could do next ghost image consisting of your basic software. u can always check for the size, buy putting this image to your spare partition,
    Igor
    p.s. i'll have to start a new thread describing my heavy SW installation problems on M40
     
    sun272, Sep 18, 2005
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    rahulm Notebook Guru

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    so it doesnt matter that my c drive has only 5 gb free out of 20 gb..i can select what to put on the image??
     
    rahulm, Sep 18, 2005
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