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Dealing with hidden partitions, recovery, ms stuff etc backup Windows7?
Dealing with hidden partitions, recovery, ms stuff etc backup Windows 7?
When I build a windows 7 system, I use gparted to create C and D partitions. C is small and easy to backup with Acronis...life is good. If I let win7 partition the drive, it adds a 100MB one that messes up the ordering and confuses the Acronis backup system so the restore won't boot without jumping thru some repair hoops...so I don't do that. I bought a used HP laptop. Had one visible C: partition, but it was so locked down that I gave up and did the factory restore. Now, it has four partitions. 199MB System NTFS hidden 238GB C: NTFS 14GB Recovery with D: label NTFS 103MB HPTools.. at the end. FAT32 hidden What I'd like to do is hide the recovery partition, split C: into 20GB C: 118GB D: AND NOT LOSE THE LINKAGE TO THE RECOVERY PARTITION so I can use the boot hotkey to restore the new C: using the system recovery partition. AND FIX UP THE PARTITION POINTERS SO ACRONIS CAN BACKUP/RESTORE THE PARTITIONS AND THE SYSTEM WILL BOOT. Google finds me lots of info on shrinking/adding partitions. I'm finding nothing about how to keep the linkages to the system factory restore process. Then, there's the problem that I already have 4 primary partitions. Is that still the maximum? Have to do something about that. BUT I have other situations where this is not a problem, so still need a solution that splits partitions without screwing up the drive ordering and confusing the backup/restore/recovery programs. Need some freeware or tutorials or something... |
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