Re: Laptop has 4 Primary partitions in Vista, where does SuSe go?

dan say wrote:
A Toshiba p200 Satellite RT5 laptop with a single 150 Gb has
four primary partitions under the default Vista.

Did Toshiba use up all of the primary paritions, or did you?
You need to remember to make the final primary partition into
an extended partition if you plan on having more than 4
partitions on a host.

If Tohsiba did this... shame on them.... but typical...

You may have to do some backups or use a re-partitioning
tool (and backup ANYWAY!!).



SDA1 Volume label Toshiba System Volume
Type NTFS (0x27)
Start sector 2048
Size 1.4 Gb
Cyl 0 to 191
C:
SDA2 Volume Label S3A6423233
D:
Type NTFS (0x7)
Start sector 3074048
Size 133 Gb
Cyl 191-17639
SDA3
E:?
Type NTFS (0x7)
Start SEctor 283371520
Size 7 Gb
Cyl 17639-18590
SDA4 Volume Label: HDD recovery
Type HIddten HPFS/NTFS 0x17
Start Sector 298655740
Size 6Gb
Cyl 18590-19457

Now I can squeeze SDA2 down in Vista to half,
leaving unallocated space.
But this space can't be formatted for Suse Linux
as it says that I can only have 4 Primaries.
And here I thought that I could create a logical
extension for Linux.

I need to go to Windows once in a while, and some
of the features of this laptop might only be on the
windows side.

So, ... do I kill one partition, such as the HDD Recovery,
SDA4, but somehow leave the space empty, thus "freeing" a
Primary partition?
I've done the initial laptop Create Recovery Disks
thing which took 2 DVDs (about 6 Gb) which should replace
it when needed.
I gather that Vista is always making up a series of CD
zized images of itself for recovery from a certain state.

So / root, /home, /Swap will take up more partitions, though
once I have cut, squeezed, chopped the 133Gb in half for
this Linux install (i'll be adding eCs, the modern OS/2
sucessor later), they should take or will they need an
apparent Primary partition also.
The recovery disks seem to be Norton Ghost images to
restore the HDD parition and the complete image of the
remaining Windows Gigabytes of basic stuff in Vista Home.

That's typical Toshiba. I know that there are ways to
hack it so you can create a custom partition table and
still recover using Toshiba's restore (I know because
I've done it in the past on a different Toshiba laptop).


Maybe there is a better way to restore the Windows part
by DVD/CD that would obviate the need for these three
extra-partions.


I wonder if Toshiba will sell you a real Windows install
CD instead of their recovery one?? (unlikely, I know...
just wondering)

.

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