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Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7

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On 02/04/2012 01:38 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> On 03/02/2012 4:21 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>> My new Acer doesn't have the VSS partition; Win7 HP 64-bit.
>>>
>>> Give it a letter, take a look inside it. If there's nothing there
>>> make a note of the exact size in case you need to recreate it, then
>>> remove it. Reduce the C partition by as much as you need, create
>>> your Linux one, and install.
>>
>> Neither of the two mystery partitions seem to be NTFS or
>> FAT-formatted. They seem to be proprietary.
>
> Have a look at the recent posts in the *.storage group,
> Andy goes into quite a bit of detail with his Toshiba Satellite
> and its likely using the same setup as yours.
>
> With his, those two partitions are for the diskless
> restore and what creates the restore CDs,
>
> I thought he might reply to you but then I remember that
> his Toshiba Satellite has just gone back to Toshiba for
> hard drive replacement and thats the only real PC he has.

Oh wow, so this discussion has already happened, and not that long ago 
either? I see the other thread in *.storage now. Looks like Andy Hancock 
had an almost identical sized hard disk as mine, it was setup in the 
same way.

Anyways, it looks like I may have gotten my answer from Toshiba. When I 
called them, I expected to get the run-around from them, and they did 
for a while. They told me what the two mystery partitions are for: (1) 
recovery, and (2) Volume Shadow Service. But according to the other 
thread, they are for recovery, and language packs. I think the language 
packs makes more sense to me than the Volume Shadow Service. I then 
called them back and asked them to send me to their second-line 
engineers. And I told the second-line guy, point blank that I needed to 
install Linux on the box, and that he needed to tell me which of the 
partitions can be removed after backing up. So he figured I knew what I 
was doing, and so he told me that the 13 GB parition is the recovery 
partition, and that it can be backed up to DVD's and removed later.

Toshiba furnishes an utility called the Toshiba Recovery Media Creator, 
which does the imaging for you. When the utility first starts, it asks 
you which language pack you want to back up (the choices are English and 
French in Canada, of course). You have to back up each language in 
separate actions, so you can do that, or just backup the one that's most 
relevant to you.

	Yousuf Khan

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New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-03 14:52 -0500
  Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Tony <Tony@TheDeli.Sandwich> - 2012-02-03 15:12 -0500
  Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2012-02-03 21:21 +0000
    Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-03 22:50 -0500
      Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-04 17:38 +1100
        Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-04 17:30 -0500
      Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-02-04 02:56 -0500
        Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-04 17:48 -0500
          Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-02-04 19:30 -0500
            Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-06 17:19 -0500
              Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> - 2012-02-07 03:36 +0000
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 09:43 -0500
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-02-07 11:39 -0500
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> - 2012-02-07 17:56 +0000
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-08 23:52 -0500
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-09 08:14 +0000
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-09 14:15 -0500
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 08:25 +1100
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-10 14:31 -0500
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 a1pcfixer <a1pcfixer@comcast.net> - 2012-02-10 14:37 -0600
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 10:02 +1100
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 11:05 -0800
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 07:19 +1100
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> - 2012-02-09 08:26 +0000
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-09 20:20 +1100
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-10 14:33 -0500
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 10:05 +1100
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-02-09 09:40 -0500
                Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 07:02 +1100
  Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2012-02-03 18:01 -0800
    Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2012-02-03 18:04 -0800
    Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 a1pcfixer <a1pcfixer@comcast.net> - 2012-02-03 21:42 -0600

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