re: Recovered WinXP on very small FAT32 partition
Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 2:26 am
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Posted by bob wells
(1353 messages posted)
Lorna,
You're not gonna like this. The 4GB Partition marked, RECOVERY C:, Is just exactly
what is says it is. The Manufacturer Created that Small Fat32 partition to Make it
easier to Restore the Computer to Factory Default setup.
That partition is supposed to be hidden from Windows in normal use so nothing gets
changed on it. The good news is that you have a restore disk.
The only thing you can do now is reformat the Recovery C: partition and reinstall
WinXp on a different partition. Don't bother trying to incorporate the 4BG partition
into the 160GB. You won't be able to.
You can try installing WinXP on the 160GB, but then you'll have 2 Copies of WinXP,
capable of booting.
You'll have to contact Advent to figure out what to do about the 4GB Partition.Maybe
they'll have mercy on you and help you Restore your Recovery C:.
When you install XP to the 160 GB HDD be sure to set the Drive letter to C: if not
already set.
BW
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On Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 11:53 pm, Lorna wrote:
>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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