topic Re: RECOVER USED SPACE in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47751#M98059 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Using Partition Magic has been known to be problematic at times and I am sure that is why Thalamus suggested backing up your data before going down this route.<BR /><BR />However, none of you operating programs or system is linked to the recovery partition as such. The HDDR is only there to a) create restore disks or b) recover your system.<BR /><BR />If you do intend to delete this partition I would suggest that you create more than one copy of the recovery media and make sure that they function before proceeding.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:33:16 GMT rich912 2006-03-05T20:33:16Z RECOVER USED SPACE https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47741#M98054 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Can I recover the used space (recovery partition) without reinstalling Windows? Thanks<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:02:39 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47741#M98054 PHOTOSHOPKID 2006-03-05T11:02:39Z Re: RECOVER USED SPACE https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47743#M98055 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote">Can I recover the used space (recovery partition) without reinstalling Windows? Thanks<BR /></PRE><BR /><BR />Hi Photoshop Kid,<BR /><BR />If you use follow the Sony <A href="http://kb.sony-europe.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=67,E=0000000000032084114,K=4965,Sxi=4,Case=obj(20838)" target="_blank">guide</A> for deleting the HDDR recovery partition then no you will have to reinstall your system. (see <A href="http://kb.sony-europe.com/KB/Solutions/EN/A01000_A01499/A01306.html" target="_blank">custom options</A> for further information.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:46:55 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47743#M98055 Thalamus. 2006-03-05T11:46:55Z Re: RECOVER USED SPACE https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47745#M98056 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Darn, I just wanted to recover this wasted space without doing a reinstall of Windows, I have made 3 recovery dvds, so this is now a waste of space on my hard drive<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:46:00 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47745#M98056 PHOTOSHOPKID 2006-03-05T12:46:00Z Re: RECOVER USED SPACE https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47747#M98057 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote">Darn, I just wanted to recover this wasted space without doing a reinstall of Windows, I have made 3 recovery dvds, so this is now a waste of space on my hard drive<BR /></PRE><BR /><BR />You may be able to use something like Partition Magic <A href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/downloads/index.cfm?categoryID=1503&amp;itemID=7324" target="_blank">(trial)</A> ensure you back-up vital software first in case of problems.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:07:41 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47747#M98057 Thalamus. 2006-03-05T13:07:41Z Re: RECOVER USED SPACE https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47749#M98058 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for the info, but I thought if I used Partition magic to do the job that it would cause the laptop to fail because some how the Vaio operating files are some how linked to the files on the extra partition<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:59:21 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47749#M98058 PHOTOSHOPKID 2006-03-05T19:59:21Z Re: RECOVER USED SPACE https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47751#M98059 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Using Partition Magic has been known to be problematic at times and I am sure that is why Thalamus suggested backing up your data before going down this route.<BR /><BR />However, none of you operating programs or system is linked to the recovery partition as such. The HDDR is only there to a) create restore disks or b) recover your system.<BR /><BR />If you do intend to delete this partition I would suggest that you create more than one copy of the recovery media and make sure that they function before proceeding.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:33:16 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47751#M98059 rich912 2006-03-05T20:33:16Z Re: RECOVER USED SPACE https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47753#M98060 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks Rich............<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:29:34 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47753#M98060 PHOTOSHOPKID 2006-03-06T08:29:34Z Re: RECOVER USED SPACE https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47755#M98061 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>what you could do is the following<BR /><BR />make a backup with norton ghost (on hard disk or DVD)<BR />remove the partitions you don't want them to be there<BR />repartition as you like<BR />put in the norton ghost recovery disk and select the correct destination for you backup<BR /><BR />that's the way I did it, and it works<BR /><BR />Gerrie<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:25:40 GMT https://community.sony.no/t5/pcs-accessories/recover-used-space/m-p/47755#M98061 sweetCoffee 2006-03-06T09:25:40Z