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Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7

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AndyHancock wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
>> Yousuf Khan wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Yousuf Khan wrote
>>>>> Arno wrote

>>>>>> If you do a sector-image, the partition type should not matter.

>>>>> I've gone ahead and let Ptedit32 change the partition types,
>>>>> and then after a reboot, the two partitions were actually
>>>>> automatically mounted by Windows as E: and F:.

>>>> And thats presumably why Toshiba chooses to fake the partition
>>>> type, so that doesnt happen.

>>> I've now made an image of both partitions and blown away the
>>> original partitions, and it looks like the two partitions are
>>> almost identical, both seem to be Windows recovery partitions, even
>>> though only one of them is listed as a Windows recovery partition.

>> Andy said that someone told him, forget who he said it was now, that
>> one is the diskless recovery and the other creates the recovery disks.

>>> In fact, the 13GB is all either of them needed, I'm not sure why
>>> Toshiba decided to make one 24GB, it was nearly half empty.

>> Presumably it uses the free space when doing the diskless recovery,
>> maybe as where it puts some of the settings etc so you dont have
>> just the option of a return to the factory config as supplied etc.

>>> I'm not sure if maybe one of them was a 32-bit Windows image, while
>>> the other one was 64-bit. But they both seem to contain directories
>>> named "64" inside.

>> That appears to blow that theory up.

>>> One could be a Toshiba-centric customization of Windows 7, or something.

>> Yeah, tho that doesnt explain the free space.

>> Bet the small one creates the recovery disks and the larger one does
>> the diskless recovery with at least optionally some way of preserving
>> settings or additional installs etc if the story Andy got is correct.

> Just got the laptop back this week, been trying to do due diligence,
> tests, etc.  New HDD and new mobo (including video chip).

> Unfortunately, the HDD got an unintended BUMP in the process.
> I mean with the all-caps.

Urk, what happened there ?

> About the purposes of partitions 3 & 4, it's all a bit foggy, since
> it's gathered through peoples experienced assessments on Toshiba
> forums (Toshiba.com and Toshiba-europe), as well as Seagate & Norton
> forums.  As well, from talking with Toshiba technical support.  As you
> might have gathered from your experience, anything they say over the
> phone is not to be taken as authoritatively accurate (likely even less
> than the info from forums, both Toshiba and others).  But yes, the
> gist I got was that partitions 3 & 4 are for recovery discs, disc-less
> recovery, and other-language info for the above.  *If* that is
> accurage, then how they are distributed between the partitions isn't
> all that clear to me.  Sorry I couldn't be more helpful than that.

> P.S. Sorry for fragmenting the thread, but I got the following message:

> Google Groups does not currently support posting to the following
> usenet groups: "alt.windows7.general"

No problem, gg can be a bit quirky at times. 

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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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