[H] Sony ?
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?
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?
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no, c (fat32 is boot) converted to NTFS but did not geive me anymore room. Started out with 214mb free, now has 1.75GB free. Set swap on D and removed all the crap. BTW, how come my posts need approval ? I get a mail back to that affect. Just wondering. fp - Original Message - From: Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:02 AM 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?
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I would also think that it is some sort of recovery partition. Very common now to see NTFS partition and Fat32 partitions on Tier1 systems. Usually the FAT32 partition will be hidden and it is actually the first partition on the drive and the NTFS drive will be the working partition for XP or Vista. 7.5gb of a 20gb drive though seems a bit wasteful. -Tharin Olsen Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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?
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fat32 was boot, ntfs has no recovery info. Older system (500MHz) I assume first partition for OS but nobody even knows to install on D. Hesitate to merge, delete D. Format reinstall better but not my call. Thanks - Original Message - From: Tharin Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [H] Sony ? I would also think that it is some sort of recovery partition. Very common now to see NTFS partition and Fat32 partitions on Tier1 systems. Usually the FAT32 partition will be hidden and it is actually the first partition on the drive and the NTFS drive will be the working partition for XP or Vista. 7.5gb of a 20gb drive though seems a bit wasteful. -Tharin Olsen Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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?
Re: [H] Sony ?
Check your sent and rec'd time stamps on the headers, (or in your e-mail program, if you turn on those columns). IF you are Moderated, my hat is off to them since your last two posts cleared in around -- under a minute... Rick Glazier From: FP BTW, how come my posts need approval ? I get a mail back to that affect. Just wondering. fp
Re: [H] Sony ?
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?
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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.
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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.
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Some of the _very_ early ones did (fat32), until they got the images switched over. (I only read that, I never understood it...) Rick Glazier From: Tharin Olsen I don't think I have ever seen a system that was Win2K or XP come with a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS.
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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?
[H] Sony KDS-R60XBR1 or NOT
My old Sony 53-inch RPTV that I bought back in '99 is starting to gotwice now, I've found it in some funky video state that makes it look as though the guns are misaligned (the first time it stayed in that state for almost two weeks until I did a autoalign). Then it goes back into focus for a time, and then seems to revert to a funky state again I paid like $3300 for this guy - a 4x3 non HD picture. Still an ok image for DVDs when its working. No HD, though. Anyone know if this tech is worth trying to have fixed? As a possible replacement, I'm thinking of springing for a KDS R60XBR1 for about 4k. A lot of dough, plus I'd have to get some kind of stand...one you only live once, right? Anyone experience this unit first-hand? I'd probably buy it at best buy, to get their reward points. I've got a 12% off coupon, but it ain't good on Sony XBRs. Any other possible model worth looking at to use that coupon? Thanks.
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wow...that shaved off a lot of $$$. w/ stand for $3300 delivered! Thanks! GM wrote: :: $2399 :: :: http://www.pcandplasma.com/shop/Product.asp?ProdTypeList=1000Sku=Snkds60xbr1 :: :: :: - Original Message - :: From: Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com :: Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:59 AM :: Subject: [H] Sony KDS-R60XBR1 or NOT :: :: ::: My old Sony 53-inch RPTV that I bought back in '99 is starting to ::: gotwice now, I've found it in some funky video state that makes ::: it look as though the guns are misaligned (the first time it stayed ::: in that state for almost two weeks until I did a autoalign). Then ::: it goes back into focus for a time, and then seems to revert to a ::: funky state again ::: ::: I paid like $3300 for this guy - a 4x3 non HD picture. Still an ok ::: image for DVDs when its working. No HD, though. ::: ::: Anyone know if this tech is worth trying to have fixed? ::: ::: As a possible replacement, I'm thinking of springing for a KDS ::: R60XBR1 for about 4k. A lot of dough, plus I'd have to get some ::: kind of stand...one you only live once, right? ::: ::: Anyone experience this unit first-hand? I'd probably buy it at ::: best buy, to get their reward points. I've got a 12% off coupon, ::: but it ain't good on Sony XBRs. Any other possible model worth ::: looking at to use that coupon? ::: ::: Thanks.
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I'm not really into these yet, but that looks like a hell of a lot for extended warrantees. I would hope the TV has a factory warranty, eh? Looks like a really nice TV, though. - Original Message - From: Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [H] Sony KDS-R60XBR1 or NOT wow...that shaved off a lot of $$$. w/ stand for $3300 delivered! Thanks! GM wrote: :: $2399 :: :: http://www.pcandplasma.com/shop/Product.asp?ProdTypeList=1000Sku=Snkds60xbr1 :: :: :: - Original Message - :: From: Anthony Q. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com :: Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:59 AM :: Subject: [H] Sony KDS-R60XBR1 or NOT :: :: ::: My old Sony 53-inch RPTV that I bought back in '99 is starting to ::: gotwice now, I've found it in some funky video state that makes ::: it look as though the guns are misaligned (the first time it stayed ::: in that state for almost two weeks until I did a autoalign). Then ::: it goes back into focus for a time, and then seems to revert to a ::: funky state again ::: ::: I paid like $3300 for this guy - a 4x3 non HD picture. Still an ok ::: image for DVDs when its working. No HD, though. ::: ::: Anyone know if this tech is worth trying to have fixed? ::: ::: As a possible replacement, I'm thinking of springing for a KDS ::: R60XBR1 for about 4k. A lot of dough, plus I'd have to get some ::: kind of stand...one you only live once, right? ::: ::: Anyone experience this unit first-hand? I'd probably buy it at ::: best buy, to get their reward points. I've got a 12% off coupon, ::: but it ain't good on Sony XBRs. Any other possible model worth ::: looking at to use that coupon? ::: ::: Thanks.
[H] Sony, Toshiba Seek Unified DVD Format...........
Finally, Perhaps, this will give as less headache, until then I will stick to my DVHS collection. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=693756 007
RE: [H] Sony, Toshiba Seek Unified DVD Format...........
There has been a bit of discussion in the online media about this for the past couple of weeks. I don't know if it will happen, but it started with one of the head guys at Sony saying they were open to discussions about merging the formats. I think this can only be a good thing. Different recording formats are one thing (and not really too much of an issue now because of all-format writers) but different retail formats are definitely not good. On a related note, Sony have admitted they made big mistakes in close formatting a lot of products (minidisk, Memory Stick etc.) and not embracing industry standards and common practices (MP3 if the biggest one). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 007 Sent: 22 April 2005 14:36 To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Sony, Toshiba Seek Unified DVD Format... Finally, Perhaps, this will give as less headache, until then I will stick to my DVHS collection. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=693756 007
