I agree, the partition is apparently also for a diskless recovery. Ok, so I burnt the recovery discs, and naught. They just want to install a default image. This is annoying. I'm on the phone with Com--- HP now, and I'm doing some Googling. I'll let you know if I find anything that works. Any more ideas would also be greatly appreciated.
-Peter On 4/12/07, Zac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, the discs you create with Recovery Manager will do a full factory restore on a blank hard drive, they will also re-create that recovery partition. I think that the recovery partition is primarily just for creating those discs. -Zac On 4/11/07, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's what I was considering trying next. Does burning the recovery > partition to a DVD via Recovery Manager create a full recovery disk, or does > it require the funky 6.38 gig recovery partition? > > -Peter > > > On 4/11/07, Zac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have seen this, and I was able to get around it. I have an hp > > laptop that was only available with vista, and I found that if I had > > done anything other than boot the vista install, I would only get > > about 1 g of space shrinking the drive with the vista tool. However, > > from a fresh install, well, as fresh as you can get with the revert to > > factory discs they provide these days, I was able to get my vista > > partition down to 15gigs total. So, if you don't have anything > > critical installed in vista, you may try reinstalling. Good Luck. > > > > -Zac > > > > On 4/11/07, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, I tried that but it only got me 587mb. Like Vista is taking up a > 105 > > > gig partition... I think what's happening is that there are files at the > end > > > of the partition as well as the front. Don't know. > > > > > > -Peter > > > > > > > > > On 4/11/07, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Peter Davoust wrote: > > > > > That's a good idea, I'll try it. I'm not a Windows fan myself, but > at > > > > > least Vista looks cool. > > > > > > > > > > On 4/10/07, *Joe Menola* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 4:15:17 pm Peter Davoust wrote: > > > > > > Ok, so this is sort of a continuation of my previous question > > > about > > > > > > Xserver, HP decided to replace my laptop after a little > technical > > > > > support > > > > > > issue, and now my PC has Vista on a 120 gig hard drive. The > only > > > > > problem is > > > > > > that for some reason neither my Gparted Live cd nor my gentoo > > > > > live cd can > > > > > > resize the partition. I'd reinstall everything, but Compaq > > > > > doesn't like > > > > > > providing OS restore disks, and instead put all the data on a > > > > > separate > > > > > > partition. Most likely the restore disk will just setup the > same > > > > > partition > > > > > > scheme as before anyway. I've tried using the Vista disk > > > > > partition utility, > > > > > > but it could only give me 587 mb in between the restore and > OS > > > > > partitions. > > > > > > It's annoying, does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried > chkdsk > > > > > and defrag > > > > > > already, but to no avail. > > > > > > > > > > The first thing I'd try is zipping the contents of c:\ > drive>dvd, > > > > > recreate > > > > > your partitions and unzip to the smaller c:\ drive. I know this > > > > > would work > > > > > for ntfs. I know nothing about Vista though, and I'm fine with > that. > > > ;) > > > > > > > > > > -jm > > > > > -- > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mailing > > > list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can resize partitions and volumes within Vista itself using the > > > > 'Disk Management' console program. > > > > -- > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
