On 7/18/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well I did not get a XP-pro installation disk with this portable.
The portable has a second partition with XP on it, used for recovery.
[Way OT] I know some manufacturers do this, and it is one of the
dumbest things I've ever heard of. Why do consumers accept this? You
save $0.05c on the cost of a CD, at the risk of having *no* recovery
option at all if the HD fails. It's just stupid.
If these are new systems, I would give HP support a call and demand
they send you the WinXP OEM installation CD.
XP from the the XP installation/recovery partition to a smaller
partition. say 30 Gig.Sound like a viable option?
My XP system under VMWare is on a 10Gb virtual disk, although I use
NTFS compression there. It depends on what you want to use it for,
but my guess is that 30Gb should be more than enough for basic XP
tasks.
Is there any free download software (even if it's a binary) to
defrag this ntfs partition, for an amd64 ? Googling for
{O&ODefrag +amd64 } does not produce anything useful.
Under windows, I use O&ODefrag from http://www.oo-software.com. It
isn't free, but there is a 30-day trial available. It is also windows
only (they had a Linux beta, but not for NTFS, and it sucked big-time.
Corrupted filesystems, no response from their support line, etc etc.
Seems to have been withdrawn).
-Richard
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