Re: Laptop has 4 Primary partitions in Vista, where does SuSe go?
- From: danielsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dan Say)
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:06:41 GMT
In article <13hf0j3m4ksaf84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
dan say wrote:Yes, this is a "virgin" machine, bought in Canada,
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!!).
so the first question is English or French and then it
proceeds to delete the software in the other language.
I examined the drive then, and did their Toshiba Recovery
setup to 2 DVDs
It seems to be a Norton Ghost making CD sized images
from a 'set point'
Mandriva, Fedora, SuSE installers all see 4 primary
partitions.
The first small one (1.4 Gig) seems to be a proprietary
Toshiba one for (what? Recovery? Backing up?)
The second partition is drive C: for Windows and is
the largest. The internal Windows sofrware can shrink to
half size, though it seems to 'only' have about 6 Gig on it.
The third partiion might be the remnants of the French
language software. (By the say, the BIOS can be either
language)
The fourth and end of disk partition has ZZImages on it
that are used in backup. Backing up files (a different
procedure, backs up only created files, not programmes, and
offers the third disk as a place to put it.
.....
SDA1 Volume label Toshiba System Volume
Type NTFS (0x27)
Start sector 2048 >> Size 1.4 Gb
Cyl 0 to 191
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 >>
There seems to be various restore options, notThe 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).
documented, but in the screen, which I will try
to copy down or make screen shots.
The paper and manual only offer Restore CDs
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)
but I'll check.
.
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