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    BIG problem with a recovery partition

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by nonvaio, Dec 2, 2007.

  1. nonvaio

    nonvaio Newbie

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    Hi there !

    Two months ago I bought SONY VAIO VGN-N31S. I have 100 GB (Toshiba) hard disk installed in my laptop and when I bought it there was a Windows Vista. I don't like Windows Vista so I got rid of it as soon as I turned on the laptop. Unfortunately I did not know that there is something like recovery partition which can be erased. The point is that I use Windows XP Prof with SP2 now and I have 93 GB not 100 GB which means that 7GB is still a recovery partition. I have tried different software such as Norton PartitionMagic 8.0 and Paragon Partiton Manager 8.5 and these softwares did not see my recovery partition. I would appreciate all help and advice which could instruct me how I can delete the recovery partition and make it work fine.

    Regards
    PS: My HDD is TOSHIBA MK1034GSX.

    Adam
    UK
     
    nonvaio, Dec 2, 2007
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    The HDD is 100GB = 100 billion bytes. But the OS is reporting the capacity in GiB = 1024^3 bytes. Hence the difference.

    There's no recovery partition there.
     
    E.B.E., Dec 2, 2007
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  3. nonvaio

    nonvaio Newbie

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    Ok. Thx for information!
     
    nonvaio, Dec 2, 2007
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