Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition
Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 11:53 pm
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Posted by Lorna
(11 messages posted)
I recently had to use the recovery disk on my Advent PC. After several tries the
disk eventually worked. The problem however is that the OS is now installed on a
4GB FAT32 partition called 'RECOVERY(C:)'. and is almost completely used up, (the
size of the HD is 160GB and was not originally partitioned). If there has to be
a partition, why is it so small? And why FAT32, I thought XP only used NFTS which
is what the rest of the disk is? I have tried to resize this partition using EASEUS
Partition Manager but it won't budge, every time I change the size in the dialogue
box and click OK the size I have typed reverts back to just over 4GB, (is this the
maximum for FAT32?) yet the program works on the NFTS partition.
Windows keeps informing me that there is low disk space and System Restore has been
disabled. I cannot install any programs, when I try I am informed that there is
not enough disk space and to delete programs to free some up. The only program installed
is EASUS, apart from XP of course, so that's not an option.
I've probably given myself away as being 'not very technical'. I get by but when
things start getting complicated I'm lost. I do hope there is someone out there
who can help!
I am running WinXP Home Edition SP2. The recovery disk is the Advent System Recovery
CD-Rom supplied with the PC about 4 or 5 years ago
Thanks for listening. Lorna
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