T Series Partitioned HD, Why???????

Hi,

Just recieved my T250 Sony laptop and I love everything about it - except that the HD is partitioned, C:15GB, D:45GB. Is there a way that I can reformatt completely to a standard C:60GBHD? And does anyone have a walkthrough for me, posted this somewhere else and someone just told me to run recovery and that it's simple and that I should know. I mean, isn't the purpose of a forum to share and ask for help? Anyway, if anyone can help, please do,

THanks,

Les...

 

I had the same problem, solved it with partition magic, but if you don't have that, then you must do a full restore off the disks and use the custom option.

 

y dont you like your harddrive partitioned? If you only have windows in the C drive and have all your other programs in the D drive, restoring your system is MUCH easier. Also, this makes startup and shutdown much faster, but if you really want it all in one drive, then just use Norton's Partition Magiv 8.0 or reformat the drive yourself.

 

Agreed. It is safer to keep you data on a second partition.

 

I agree that it is safer to keep personal data on a separate partition, but Sony's refusal to provide backup CDs/DVDs is ridiculous. However, after you do burn the restore DVDs, there is no need to keep the separate partition and it would be foolish to do so (the partition isn't even formatted properly, so it doesn't show up in Windows).

 

Really? The partition doesnt even show up? Well in that case it probably means sony was dumb enough to use dos to partition the hdd which windows xp cannot read. In that case, just use partition magic and delete the partition.

 

i thought that partition is for system restore...isn't it??...like if something goes wrong...u can go back to an earlier date and stuff..??

 

I agree with luckmc11, I think the 2nd partition may be where the restore data is located. It is safer to keep data on a 2nd partition, but that only protects it from an OS/failure, if the the drive fails, any data on other partitions on the same physical drive will be lost as well. It is best to backup you data on a seperate drive or other media altogether.

Jack

 

ahh, lol. forgot about system restore. Yeah, turn that thing off. It drains hdd space and actually slows your computer down.

 

i just divided the space it took up in half...cuz i wouldn't be restoring it to something like a month ago...max is prob. like 1 week ago if i really had 2

 

I have the S460 and I reinstalled windows Pro from a fresh install. I deleted all the partitions (even that 5mb partition Sony made for the system restore.) I dedicated about 8gb to the Windows C drive and I just throw all my movies , music and other stuff on the other drive.

Personally I feel this way looks a lot cleaner and also by doing a fresh install you know exactly what is on your PC at all times. Go with this choice if you can. =)