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BK On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Scott Siri <ss...@mendotahs.org> wrote: > It is flagged as the boot partition. There is no recovery console that I > know about. > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Ekhoff, Andrew <aekh...@sags.k12.il.us> > wrote: >> >> I would go into recovery console and try a fixboot. Also, boot into >> gparted and check if the partition is flagged as a boot partition. >> >> >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> Andrew Ekhoff >> >> Technology Coordinator >> >> St. Anne Public Schools >> >> aekh...@sags.k12.il.us >> >> SAGS: (815) 427-8153 >> >> SACHS: (815) 427-8141 >> >> >> >> From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org >> [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Scott Siri >> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:41 AM >> To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List >> Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] FOG Pulling Image Partition trouble >> >> >> >> I got impatient. I combined all three partitions into one last night. >> Look this morning like it hosed the machine. Unless there is a bios setting >> I'm missing, it seems to be having trouble loading the OS. The partition is >> now called dev\sda2 according to gparted. >> >> is this the normal name for the primary partition? My understanding is I >> can't rename the partition without killing all data on it. I did not get >> that warning when I combined the FATs onto the NTFS last night. >> >> The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600. We have many of these and I just >> wanted an image. Silly me to think it would be simple. >> >> Scott >> >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:05 AM, K Lesko <kle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sounds like a manufacturer's utility partition and a partition to restore >> the OS. What brand of computers are they? I am not sure what the best way >> to proceed would be. If you have more than one of these systems that you >> can get an image from I would use a partition editor from a boot disk (DOS >> FDISK, GPARTED) to eliminate the FAT partitions and see if FOG would then >> allow you to pull an image. >> >> If this is the only system you have I would use ghost or clonzilla etc. to >> get an image of the OS before I messed with the partitions. If the above >> doesn't work you may need to re-partition the drive to a single NTFS >> partition and put the OS image back on before FOG will pull an image. >> >> Let us know, I will likely be headed down this path in a week or so. . . >> >> Kevin >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Scott Siri <ss...@mendotahs.org> wrote: >> >> I have a computer all ready to pull an image from. >> >> FOG wont do it and the errors seem to point to a partition issue. >> >> The hard drive seems to have a FAT partition of 49MB, FAT32 partition of >> 3.5GB and NTFS partition of 145GB. >> >> I don't know when or why these were all created on here. Can I merge the >> two small ones into the larger without killing off my OS? I'm pretty basic >> when it comes to understanding of file systems and partitions. >> >> Scott >> >> *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> >> >> >> *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
