I don't think I have ever seen a system that was Win2K or XP come with a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS.
Perhaps the owner or someone else worked on it before and managed to do blow out the recovery partition and did a new install onto the smaller FAT32 partition. -Tharin O. FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: seen that too but in this case the fate32 was the boot partition. Very strange. all better Fp At 04:28 PM 12/26/2007, Richard Kim Poked the stick with: >Yup. Recovery partition. Thinkpads have the same thing. They have a small >recovery program and a copy of everything that came on the laptop. >Originally the laptop came with a 40GB drive but only 34GB free. While I was >transferring everything over to a larger HDD, I noticed the program had made >2 partitions, 1 in NTFS and another in FAT32. The FAT32 was hidden on the >factory drive. It's a waste of space. I deleted the partition on the new >drive which is in the computer now, but I've saved the older 40GB drive >incase I ever need it again. On the thinkpads, there is a button you press >to automatically boot at the FAT32 partition. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Edwards >Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:03 PM >To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com >Subject: Re: [H] Sony ? > >Was/is a recovery partition? > >> Weird, got a Sony notebook in for service, full drive. >> >> I free'ed up 1gb on the boot partition but further investigation shows TWO >> partitions on what looks like a 20gb drive with a 7,5gb FAT32 boot >> partition and the rest NTFS >> >> WTF. Hesitate to merge these partitions. >> >> Curious why Sony did this. >> fp >> >> -- >> Tallyho ! ]:8) >> Taglines below ! >> -- >> Efficiency takes time. Frugality: who can afford it? >> >> >> -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Important letters develop errors in the mail.
