Repartitioning hard drive

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• Win XP Recovery CD and HARD drive repartitioning

  Hello.
  I need advice how to configure the Windows soft recovery so that it do not repartition the HARD drive during the recovery process. I have used before once and cannot find an option for this. Fortunately, it was a new install then and I did not lose anything. Later I got another version of Windows installed, but now I would like to return to the original configuration. I have two partitions on my HARD drive and this time I don't want to lose the data on the other partition.

  model Tecra A2
  soft Win XP pro

  Thanks in advance

  Greg

  Hello

  Usually the first partition files will be deleted.
  If you want to recover the unit with the recovery CD, then you must use the expert mode.
  This mode allows you to choose a partition where you will install the operating system.

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• HP Recovery repartition the hard drive to factory default settings?

  Hi all

  I'm looking to repartition my hard drive to separate my data in program files.

  I was wondering if I ever run HP Recovery, will this repartition the hard drive back to the factory settings by default, which eliminates the data newly created partition?

  Your reactions/experiences would be appreciated.

  Thank you very much

  Chris

  Hi Chris,

  Whether you use the Partition recovery or your recovery discs, both will delete all custom partitions that you may have created.  A better option to allow you to recover the operating system and any custom partition you created would be to use a disk imaging software.

  Additionally, make sure that you have created your recovery disks, as Re-partitioning the HARD disk can sometimes affect the function of the recovery Partition.

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• By using the Recovery Manager to repartition the HARD drive

  I started a post a few days back on my pavilion DM1-3014AU netbook that runs on AMD APU-E350, 2 GB of ram and comes pre loaded with windows 7 Home Basic. I had a number of requests because I want to repartition the hard drive, do a fresh install of windows 7 my disc and I also want to keep some of the hp software.

  After going through a few messages in this forum, I learned that we can use the Recovery Manager to do a minimal install, IE windows 7 and only the hp software. That's what I have to do unless I also want to repartition the hard drive.

  I currently have 4 partitions, C drive, hp tools (hidden) and backup (hidden). I have already created recovery disks. Now, my questions are:-

  1. can I use recovery disks or Recovery Manager to delete all existing partitions and recreate my own partitions. This means that I would remove the recovery, tools and backup partitions.

  2. After doing the above I'll be able to do a minimal install (os + hp software) via the Recovery Manager or the recovery disks.

  3. my intutions are that I can accomplish the above two using the recovery disks and not the recovery partition. If the above two steps are possible using recovery discs, it would ultimately have no partition on my hard drive recovery. I will then be able to use the recovery disks in the future to make the same minimum install (os + hp software)

  4. I wouldn't really keep the recovery, tools and backup partitions if they can be of any complacency in the future but the reson why I want to delete them, is that windows 7 Home Basic allows no more than 4 partitions and I want to be able to create at least 4 partitions for my use.

  Any help would be really appreciated...

  Yes Vikrant... it is unnecessary to install UEFI to update BIOS.

  Yes, if you install the update to the BIOS using the link I provided in my previous thead element, you can as a revert to a version of BIOS as soon as possible if you feel that the system is unstable.

  Even if you reparition the whole HARD disk and do a manimized install, you can install the BIOS update in the future.

  Updating the BIOS is independent if you did full recovery or minimizes recovery.

  BIOS update will not affect the use of recovery disks and procedures. You can safely use them in the future without any problem.

  You will use the ability to run F9 diagnostics incase of any software system crash, and you are unable to start Windows.

• Repartition a hard drive on Thinkpad SL500

  Hello world

  I recently bought an SL500. The partitions created by Lenovo seem not useful stuff. There are currently two partitions, S: (about 1.5 GB) and C: (about 231,5 GB). The computer seems to boot from the S: drive.

  I want to reorganize C: a more useful (about 60 GB for programs) C: and D: (balance for data). I tried to do this in Windows Vista, but when I try to shrink C:, it only seems to be about 9 GB of available. If this does not serve the purpose. Am I missing something here?

  I created the recovery disks and can format the system to create the partitions (which I have all the data at the moment). The rescue disks give you an option to create partitions?

  Y at - it another way to do it.

  Thanks for all the help.
  Billon.

  Hello

  before you clean your drive, please backup your data in C:\SWTools.

  There are all your necessary drivers and applications stored.

  With R & R you could recover only to the State factory, with two partitions, a R & R and a C:\ partition.

  It takes partion your hard drive and install Vista from scratch.

  Here is a guide to installation of Vista in NBR.

  Concerning

  Andreas

• Attempt of deletion, repartitioning of a pre-installed HARD drive for Win7 (from Vista Home Prem)

  Hello

  I just bought a 2nd hand Dell 1545, who had a virus on his Seagate 250 GB HDD that is preinstalled on the device from Dell.
  The disc has a healthy 39 M, a partition of primary health of 14.65 GB OEM partition and a 218,20 GB of free space, which took me 3 days
  to remove the handles of some unknown reformatting of limitation.
  The machine originally had Vista Home Premium SP1 on it, that I intend to upgrade with my copy of Win 7 retail.
  This is, as I understand it, Win7 need a 20 GB partition.
  How can I get the 3 partitions to merge and be a whole HARD disk, so I can create a new partition for the SYS OP to reinstall?
  I already tried this, nothing done... and I tried disk management, but that fails miserably, too.  Suggestions?
  The HARD drive contains nothing that I know that I already wiped the separate partitions as it became possible to do.
  Hope this is enough information for a person to bring their expertise to solve and that I'm posting in the right place.
  Thank you very much in advance for any help.

  Boot from the Windows 7 DVD

  Click Install now

  Accept the license agreement

  When the option is displayed to select a type of installation, click (Custom advanced)

  Click on drive Options

  Select the disc/s click on Delete

  Click new

  Click on apply

  Click OK

  Click Format, and then click next to proceed with the installation

• Questions on on Satellite A300 HARD drive partitions

  Hello

  I would like to install a new OS (new operating system: Windows 7, old OS: Vista Edition Home Premium) on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite A300-237) to repartition the whole HARD drive. I see a non-standard partition, its size is of ~ 1 GB, can I delete this partition?

  What information contains this partition?
  I did the recovery previously by Toshiba HDD Recovery disks. Guess when I delete any partition and put in place and installation of the discs, will recover the initial state (including the hidden partition)?

  Thank you

  If you want to install your own Win7 version delete all existing partitions and then create a C partition for the installation of the OS.
  I guess you write over WinRE partition and it is about 1.5 GB.

  I installed Win7 ultimate 32 bit on my Satellite A300 and it works perfectly.
  If you need assistance with installing Win7 let me know.

• Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 how automatically save everything on the NAS to my external HARD drive?

  Hey, I have a WD 3 TB my book around the pose I want to connect to my IX2-200 and use the external hard drive to automatically back up everything that's stored on my NAS.

  How can I do this?

  Thank you.

  Not sure wheter ix2 is able to work with > 2 TB is spread over its USB ports, but normally you would create a copy job that contains "all directories".

  If your ix2 doesn't detect your USB, try to repartition your drive USB-2 to + 1 TB

• How to divide two partitions on my HARD drive?

  I have the original recovery DVD in my book and I don't know how to repartition my HARD drive.
  I want to divide it into two scores (primary and extended?

  Hello

  If you want to create a second partition on the HARD drive I would really recommended using a 3rd party utility magically 8 partitions
  This tool is amazing. You can create and manage partitions on the HARD disk while Windows is running.

  But you can also create a partition by using the recovery CD.
  In this case, you will need to boot from the CD recovery and under the installer or expert mode.
  Simply type the first partition size and the restore CD will create a 1 partition on the HARD disk.
  After installing the OS, go to disk management, and then you bring up the second partition.

  PS: Using the recovery CD will erase the whole HARD drive! That's why I prefer the use of the PM8

• I can't see my hard drives partition more :-/

  Hello

  I can see is no longer a partition that I had on an external drive. I know that this probably isn't the best thing to do, but I had a backup time machine on this partition (such as one on my hard drive to the Mac).  I think I've ejected the drive not correctly once, and since the partition of time machine no longer appears

  Disk utility does not launch or that hard drive is plugged so I can't reformat it even :-/

  If anyone knows any more options?

  Thank you very much

  Nick

  You can try to disconnect your external drive, reboot into Recovery Mode (command-R), and OS X Utilities launch disk utilitymenu, connect your external drive and see if you can format.

  I purchased Drive Genius 4 OWC (Macsales.com) and had something similar happens where I could see all the partitions on the external drive but could not repartition or delete one of them. With Drive Genius, I was able to repartition and format. So, you might need a 3rd party app like Disk Warrior and Drive Genius (trial download) to manipulate your external drive.

• HP 430 G3: Repartiotion HARD drive with 10 Windows

  Hello world

  This thread http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/How-to-repartition-HDD-of-HP-no... describes how to remove a laptop HP with Windows 7 SYSTEM partition.

  Is there the same opportunity with Windows 10? I want to make a distribution of my G3 of 430 HP, HARD drive, HARD drive, but I can't find a way to do given that the player has 4 partitions alreay.

  Thanks in advance for your support.

  Kind regards

  Andrea

  Hello everyone

  I found in other threads asking for the same or similar issues.

  I report here which is for my best solution to my doubts:

  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/notebook-hardware-and-upgrade-questions/converting-recovery-partition-to-logical-is-it-logical/m-p/682555#M46607

  Thank you very much to all those who tried to support me.

  So long

  Andrea

• Can I use the HP Recovery partition after formatting and partitioning the rest of the hard drive?

  I recently had my HP Pavilion dv4 2145dx laptop (Windows 7 64-bit) go kerput.  The Geek Squad said that the motherboard is dead.  I bought a laptop and I use this one for now, and I use the former dv4 as external hard drive.

  I intend to continue to use the hard drive from the old dv4 as an external unresolved for now, but I wish we could fix the dv4 at some point in the future.  Here's the problem: to get the most out of the former dv4 as external drive, I want to repartition it so that there is an NTFS partition and one HFS partition +.  This way I could easily use it with my Mac and Windows machines.

  But if I do that, I'm not sure if the image of HP recovery would continue to operate.  If it does not, then if/when I get the old dv4 a new motherboard, I couldn't restore the operating system from the recovery partition.  It is a problem, because I have not create recovery disks (stupid, I know - I'm definitely making them for the new machine).

  So, I want to do these two things:

  (1) create my dv4 recovery disks.  Can I do this if the dv4 drive is mounted in an external enclosure?

  (2) format and partition the drive dv4 (the leaving intact recovery partition) and later to recover the system from the recovery partition.  The recovery partition would continue to operate in these conditions?

  Thanks for any help that anyone is obtained.

  Hello:

  What you do to the C:\drive will make the ineffective recovery partition.

  You will not be able to create a set of recovery discs unless the drive is usable in Notepad.

  Can you still read all 25 characters of your product key of W7 on the bottom of your laptop broken?

  If so, you can do this...

  If you can read the Microsoft windows 7 25-character product key, you can download simple Windows 7 ISO files to burn on a DVD for the version of windows that is installed on your PC, and which is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC case.

  Burn the ISO with the option to burn the ISO on your DVD burning program and burn it at the slowest possible speed that will allow your program. This will create a bootable DVD.

  Or use the installation of Windows 7 USB/DVD tool to compile the ISO file that you download from Digital River. Link and instructions below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB compilation method.

  http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

  Use 25 characters on the PC product key to activate the installation.

  The key will activate a 32 or 64 bit installation.

  Then go to the support of the PC and driver page to install the drivers you need.

  Link to downloads ISO of W7 is below.

  http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-Windows-7-SP1-ISO-from-Digital-River/

  Or, you can probably still order a set of recovery disc for your HP laptop.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/bph07143

  Paul

• Reinstall windows 7 on a repartitioned 'C' drive

  Hello

  I just bought HP pavilion laptop 2020se G6.

  He came with pre-installed Genuine Windows 7 Home Basic 64 - bit, the hard drive C: of 445 gb, a (D) recovery of 20 GB partition and HP tools (Fat32) of 100 MB, what is hidden under the workstation.

  I did 5 disks (DVDS) of recovery using 'create recovery media.

  I want to reinstall Windows 7 on a C: drive fresh about 70 GB and use the Go 375 remaining (as a separate partition) for other data (music, videos, games, etc.).

  Also, I like to keep the partition D: and Hp-tools (100 MB) recovery because it is...

  I'd appreciate a step by step procedure if possible.

  Can someone help me please

  It would be so nice of you.
  Thanks in advance!

  An alternative, you may want to consider >

  How to repartition the drive HARD HP notebook with windows pre-loaded...

• H9 want - 1469ea Phoenix: CSO part of hard drive 0 indicates full - E Drive a 2.7 TB unused.

  I'm a H9-1469ea Phoenix office less than 2 years. The OSC Drive (referred to as disk 0) with 106 GB is full of programs etc and cause serious problems. The rest of the car O contains recovery (drive D), and I'm unable to increase the volume of the part of the OSC. The D drive on disk 1 has more than 2.7 TB of unused space (I keep all data on a spare drive - not the computer), but I am unable to repartition to use this space as the C for programs, etc. How can I increase the size of drive E (Datadrive) using a portion of unused space in drive E greater than 2.7 to.

  Serial number is [removed personal information]

  Hi again rgh1,

  It is good to hear from you!

  The reason why your particular computer was equipped with a smaller than the hard disk drive is for quick loading and processing of the operating system. As the disc is an SSD means that the start-up will be generally faster than a typical hard drive!

  To keep your system works effectively, without overloading the drive 0, you can use your E drive for storage of files, applications and games. For example, you can reinstall Steam on your computer hard disk of 2.7 TB. This can be done by navigating to a different destination folder on the E drive. For more information, you can also take a look at this document on install games in different places.

  I hope this helps, and if you need further assistance, I would be very happy to give him!

  Have a great rest of your day!

• White wiping whole hard drive

  I have a 5720 to Acer Aspire with Vista Home Premium loaded.  I want TO erase safely the entire hard drive completely and totally blank so destroy all data and partitions (including of course hidden too).  I then want to repartition the hard drive and install Vista Business.  I have already deleted from the HARD drive and installed Windows clean several times.

  I have a copy of Microsoft's Vista business and I discovered on my laptop HP yesterday (for which I have no HP drives...), this copy does NOT load the SATA AHCI driver - I discovered this by accident when I activated "State native SATA" in the BIOS and then concluded that Vista business would not be responsible and instead the computer goes through the post OFFICE to a black screen before the Microsoft logo then returned early POST again, and so on, in the round.  Deactivation of the native state SATA in BIOS stopped it and Vista loaded normally.  Oddly enough, a second computer HP (same model) loaded from the same copy of Vista without a hitch and in Device Manager, I saw what appeared to be the evidence of a single AHCI driver loading.  A period of frustration (think what the hell of Tasmania in the Roadrunner cartoons) led me to discover that the first drive is SATA I while the second one was SATA II (using Speccy, the last two 2nd hand buys).  Why Vista interacted with the two differently, I don't know.

  Back to the Acer 5720 - Speccy reveals what has a SATA II HARD drive.  I have never had a factory for her records but you made my own now using eRecovery.

  If I wipe the HDD well Acer empty, I imagine that the factory reset disc I made does not contain a full installation of any Windows operating system and become so useless for me (I did it as a blanket of security... I felt fine).  If I use the Microsoft disc again I load Vista Business, I fear that the SATA AHCI driver may not load.  He could--because this HDD is SATA II and the loaded HP SATA II as - but it might not.  -I note on a download page also on the Acer website (http://support.acer.com/us/en/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=548) that there is a download for Aspire 5720 SATA.  Is it the AHCI driver I need to load to load Vista professional stage where I am confronted by the screen "unallocated space" (the HARD drive has yet to be formatted) and the bottom, there is a button that says "load driver?

  Sorry to be too verbose but I don't want to not end up with a blank HARD disk that does not do anything because the AHCI driver is missing and I can not reinstall Vista Home Premium from disks of factory reset because I destroyed the hidden partition or factory reset disk contains not a full copy of the Home Premium edition.

  I would appreciate all the advice of those who did this please - thanks.

  I think that is the driver ahci you need

  http://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?AGR=Y&DwnldID=18668&ProdId=2791&lang=eng&OSVersion=...

  You should try to install vista without driver ahci first, make sure you have in ahci mode in the bios