my first one too, interesting thing is data doctors had it b4 me and could not ( or would not ) fix it.
I would have preferred to delete D but just resized things around and converted C to ntfs. C: = 15gb D:= 5gb approximately. still a pretty slow box, laptop. 500MHz with 256 ram but does what she wants. fp thanks everyone and a good new year to all At 07:08 PM 12/26/2007, Tharin Olsen Poked the stick with: >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. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty?
