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June 2nd, 2005 18:00
PC restore - how much space does it take?
Hi,
I recently got Inspiron 700m with XP Home. It came with some additional free sofwares like aol/corel word perfect etc etc. The overall size on my system was less than 2 GB but my hidden partison size was set to 6.6 GB. This is completely stupid. Is there anyway to recover the unused space from hidden partison without using partision magic?
I still want the PC restore functionality, and just recover the unused the space from the hidden partision.
Thanks,
Karthik
PS: The reason I dont want to use partison magic is because I dont want to pay for it. If there is some good free user friendly software, let me know.
I recently got Inspiron 700m with XP Home. It came with some additional free sofwares like aol/corel word perfect etc etc. The overall size on my system was less than 2 GB but my hidden partison size was set to 6.6 GB. This is completely stupid. Is there anyway to recover the unused space from hidden partison without using partision magic?
I still want the PC restore functionality, and just recover the unused the space from the hidden partision.
Thanks,
Karthik
PS: The reason I dont want to use partison magic is because I dont want to pay for it. If there is some good free user friendly software, let me know.
karthik167
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Posted June 2nd, 2005 18:00
@osprey4 wrote:
No, anything done to reclaim this space will disable PC Restore.
are you sure? too bad i need to sacrifice atleast 4 GB (of total 6.6 GB, i assume it uses 2.6 GB) to having the system restore facility. i sincerely feel dell needs to address this issue immediately. why sud 4 GB go waste?
karthik
karthik167 wrote:
are you sure? too bad i need to sacrifice atleast 4 GB (of total 6.6 GB, i assume it uses 2.6 GB) to having the system restore facility. i sincerely feel dell needs to address this issue immediately. why sud 4 GB go waste?
karthikYou can go into Drive Management and see exactly how much of the partition is being used...
karthik167
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Posted June 3rd, 2005 14:00
Thanks very much for the responses. I used a partition manager to look at exact sizes of hidden partision. I found I am losing just 50 MB or so and not 3 GB as I had expected. The main reason was I had forgotten to taken into account that my actuall HDD size is 37.5 rather than 40 GB. Anyway, thanks.
Karthik
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Posted June 2nd, 2005 18:00