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    question about my FZ190s C drive

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Patriot76, Jul 31, 2007.

  1. Patriot76

    Patriot76 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i bought an external hard drive for extra storage, and have been messin around synchronizing some of the files. when i went into my computer and clicked my c drive, i saw two files i dont remember seeing before. maybe im wrong but they seem very out of place. the files are bootsect.bak and vcredist_x86. are they suppose to be here?



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    f4ding Laptop Owner

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    Seems to me that something has created a backup file of the boot sector. Seems fine to me. That's where I expect WinXP to put those kind of 'system' files.
     
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  3. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Patriot,

    Did you have XP on this machine??? I think those are files created when Vista is UPGRADED from XP. It offers to backup certain files, and I think the boot sector files is one of those.

    Gary
     
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    Patriot76 Notebook Enthusiast

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    No never put XP on it, only thing i did was synchronize the "Users > Ben" (my name obviously) file. To be honest I'm not even 100% sure what synchronizing the files actually does. I can only access them through the program WD sync, and the files run slower. I would have been better off just selecting the files and putting them in the drive. But anyways, I obviously done more than I realized
     
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