A lot of PCs now come with two partitions, one for actual use and one that serves as a "recovery" partition, storing images of the original OS, drivers, and other software that shipped with the PC.
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:23 -0400, "Rich Thomas" <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > I bought one from newegg.com a coupla weeks ago for $90, free shipping > no tax, and it took 3 min sitting at the computer, no gas, no hassle. > I did discover that formatting it to get it recognizable by winders > involved some obscure process, but once I did that it worked fine. I > also discovered that my main drive, 250GB, was initially formatted > with only one partition at 125GB, so turning the other 125GB into a > second logical drive saved the need for the 1TB drive, but now I have > things double-backed up. > > --R _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com