topic Re: B1VP hard drive capacity in PCs & Accessories

B1VP hard drive capacity

DeeksJames — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:26:57 GMT

Hey just wondering if any one knew how to delete the recovery space so it can be used. have already written the discs and there was no option to to delete it.

Cheers

Re: B1VP hard drive capacity

feederfan — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:17:03 GMT

This has been answered before, but what you need to do is use the discs to recover your computer, then you have the option of deleting the partition. Unless you use a DOS tool like partition magic you wont be able to delete a partition that contains data through windows.

Re: B1VP hard drive capacity

DeeksJames — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:13:30 GMT

HI
On your advice i started up the vaio recovery utility and chose the option that would allow me to change the partition sizes. After going through each option it appears that none of them allow me to create a disk with only C and D and without a recovery partion.

My dad, a Computer consultant, tells me that the Xp disc manager can normally delete partitions but sony have created this protected partition that it cannot deleteand that in the circumstances sony should provide a tool to delete this partition.

Currently i feel that this laptop has been mis-represented as it only gives 30Gb of useable disc space.

Re: B1VP hard drive capacity

feederfan — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:19:43 GMT

No, u need to create the recovery discs, then boot your computer from disc one. This will give you the option to change your partition size. It defintily does because i have deleted my recovery partition!

Re: B1VP hard drive capacity

kee-lo_ — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:13:11 GMT

Your dad is right, Sony have made it so you have to have C and D, which is a real pain.

Re: B1VP hard drive capacity

hlinh85 — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:32:07 GMT

Do we really need this recovery? It took a lot of space.

Re: B1VP hard drive capacity

TygerTyger — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:34:11 GMT

Some people might. The vast majority don't, nor do they need to recovery their computers just to get rid of it.

Re: B1VP hard drive capacity

kee-lo_ — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:10:12 GMT

Most people should make a few copies of the recovery disk in case it goes wrong.

Then if they feel brave they should use something like Partition Magic.

Re: B1VP hard drive capacity

TygerTyger — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:58:54 GMT

I'll give that a go when I find some freeware that will copy my entire hard drive to another computer for backup.