Yup. Recovery partition. Thinkpads have the same thing. They have a small recovery program and a copy of everything that came on the laptop. Originally the laptop came with a 40GB drive but only 34GB free. While I was transferring everything over to a larger HDD, I noticed the program had made 2 partitions, 1 in NTFS and another in FAT32. The FAT32 was hidden on the factory drive. It's a waste of space. I deleted the partition on the new drive which is in the computer now, but I've saved the older 40GB drive incase I ever need it again. On the thinkpads, there is a button you press to automatically boot at the FAT32 partition.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Edwards Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Sony ? Was/is a recovery partition? > Weird, got a Sony notebook in for service, full drive. > > I free'ed up 1gb on the boot partition but further investigation shows TWO > partitions on what looks like a 20gb drive with a 7,5gb FAT32 boot > partition and the rest NTFS > > WTF. Hesitate to merge these partitions. > > Curious why Sony did this. > fp > > -- > Tallyho ! ]:8) > Taglines below ! > -- > Efficiency takes time. Frugality: who can afford it? > > >
