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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, alt.windows7.general |
| Subject | Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 |
| Date | 2012-02-04 02:56 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <jgioav$6np$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <4f2c3b0d$1@news.bnb-lp.com> <jghj65$2n2$1@dont-email.me> <4f2cab1d$1@news.bnb-lp.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
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
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.
HTH,
Paul
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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
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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
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Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-09 08:14 +0000
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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
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Re: New Toshiba laptop with Windows 7 AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> - 2012-02-11 11:05 -0800
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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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