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Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7

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On 02/04/2012 02:56 AM, Paul 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.
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
> Use PTEDIT32 and get the partition type fields ?
> If run in Win7, use Run As Administrator, or you might see an "Error 5".
>
> ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/PTEDIT32.zip

Ah great, this worked thanks! The 4 partitions were type respectively: 
27, 07, 17, and 17.

Type 27 is listed as a PQservice partition, which is either FAT32 or 
NTFS (it is NTFS in this case). It's apparently used by Acer and other 
OEMs as a hidden rescue partition.

Type 07 is standard NTFS (it can also be HPFS, and exFAT).

Type 17 is listed as a Hidden IFS, e.g. possibly HPFS.

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html

> Another way to attempt to identify a partition like that, is with
> "Disktype".
>
> http://disktype.sourceforge.net/
>
> To get that, you can boot a Ubuntu CD, open Synaptic Package manager,
> enable all the repositories, reload the repository info (lots of downloads,
> takes a minute or so), then in Synaptic package manager you can install
> the "disktype" package. Once in there, open a Terminal window and type
>
> sudo disktype /dev/sda2
>
> That would check the second partition of hard drive "sda". It will
> then attempt to identify the partition type. The tool will even
> accept a file which holds a file system (like if you "dd" dump a
> partition into a file, if you feed it the file, it can also say
> what the file system is).
>
> As far as I know, there isn't a Windows version of "disktype". I see
> on the info page, it mentions Cygwin, but I don't have that here.

Well, the whole problem started as a result of trying to install Linux 
on this machine. :)

	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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