[GRLUG] partitioning help

[Topher]

> On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Topher wrote:
>
>> Do I need to bite the bullet and wipe out the HP_RECOVERY partition?
>
> Did the PC come with recovery media? Many don't these days.

Nope.

> Did you go thru the process of creating recovery media as you need to do 
> with most PC these days?

Nope.  I didn't see anything about doing that.  I haven't bought a 
consumer grade machine in a long time.  It seems not very cool to make me 
go buy discs to backup the machine.  :(

> If neither of these is an option, you need to make a full back up before 
> doing anything else. All versions of Windows 7 include a full system 
> backup option.
>
> In any case you probably really don't want to delete the HP_RECOVERY 
> partition. What does your documentation say?

The documentation is a poster with large pictures of wires being plugged 
in.

> If trying gparted from a live CD doesn't work, there is at least one 
> commercial partition manager that is available for free (Paragon), check 
> CNet's download.com.

I'll check that out.

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