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Nikolaj
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What is this all about?

Trelior
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Last view: 4491 days 		That is bizarre. I have never seen that before, because in order for a partition to be made off of a hard disk, it needs to have a volume. All I can say is to try to go into Disk Management and see if it even shows up. If it doesn't, then I dunno what to tell you.

Nikolaj
Posted on 01-02-10 10:19 PM (rev. 3 of 01-02-10 10:20 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 124858


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Last view: 3226 days 		It's my 6.52GB restore partition that is used for when i blow Windows up .
But I have no idea why it shows up as 0bytes or even shows up at all...

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The reason why it possibly showed up is that it likely had been set as hidden, but somehow got unset, not 100% on this one. Pretty sure there's a flag for that in the partition table, but I have no idea why that would have been changed, or it could have just been set to not show up in the registry by the OEM windows installation and that somehow got messed up.

The reason that it shows up as having no space, is that Windows sees it as "unformatted", simply because it has no idea what filesystem it is, if it's even anything other than some kind of backup software's proprietary image format crammed in to a disk partition.

Overall, you can probably just ignore it. If it's a problem, see about hiding it's appearance in Windows (Probably wouldn't be best to go about setting the hidden bit, because the recovery program might not be able to properly detect it if you do that.).

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Nikolaj
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Last view: 3226 days 		I once tried recovering with that program and there it shows up as Z:\

paulguy
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Does it matter?

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Gywall
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I'd assume that it's been assigned a drive letter, by someone at least. However, you should be able to remove the assigned letter in Computer Management/Disc Management under the Administrator tools (I'm not sure exactly what it's called in Vista/Win7, but I know it's there in Win7 at least).

At least, my laptop's recovery partition (which I can delete now if I liked, since I made the discs) is invisible and can have a lettered drive assigned/removed.

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Posted on 01-03-10 12:02 AM (rev. 2 of 01-03-10 12:03 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 124870


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Posted by Dialga
Q:\ Appered out of nowhere...


Obviously, it's Q!

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Posted on 01-03-10 12:37 AM Link | Quote | ID: 124875


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Posted on 01-03-10 01:44 AM (rev. 2 of 01-03-10 01:44 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 124883

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Last view: 3017 days 		Weird issue. Seems Windows just messed itself up. Windows is crap, things like that happen.

What I suggest:
1. Try to remove it as Gywall suggested.
2. If you can't, just don't care about it. Leave it alone and see.
3. If it causes trouble, reformat and reinstall Windows.
4. If it comes back after a reformat/reinstall, buy a new computer.
5. If it comes back after that, shoot yourself.

Okay, the 4. and 5. are a bit extreme Please avoid following them unless it's really needed.

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Trelior
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Last view: 4491 days 		I don't think my laptop even had a recovery partition on it, not that it mattered anyway because as soon as I got it, I bumped up to Vista Business from Home Premium anyway, making the recovery partition moot to begin with. If it pops up in my Windows 7 suddenly after nearly 2 years since buying the computer and never seeing it, only then will I be even slightly concerned, because I would just delete the volume off of it and expand either C:\ or E:\ over it.

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And this whole time I thought it was Q:\

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Nikolaj
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And also because I'm "sort of" running out of space ☻

Trelior
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Last view: 4491 days 		Your Windows 7 partition unnerves me... You need more than the minimum requirement on the partition to run an OS effectively.

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Depending on the layout of your drive, it may not be easy (or just take a long-ass time) to expand the partition in to old partition's space. Should consider getting an external or secondary drive to move off some of your Crap. Also, if you don't use Vista anymore, you could save some lots of space by deleting /Windows, some bits of /Program Files (or all of it if you don't use the programs off that one) and bits of /Users.

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Nikolaj
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Posted by paulguy
Depending on the layout of your drive, it may not be easy (or just take a long-ass time) to expand the partition in to old partition's space. Should consider getting an external or secondary drive to move off some of your Crap. Also, if you don't use Vista anymore, you could save some lots of space by deleting /Windows, some bits of /Program Files (or all of it if you don't use the programs off that one) and bits of /Users.

That might be a good idea... I think I still have the Windows 7 Beta and RC ISOs laying around there...

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Posted by Trelior
Your Windows 7 partition unnerves me... You need more than the minimum requirement on the partition to run an OS effectively.

Allright. Not to mention that some installation programs don't let you choose a place for installing the program or, like VS2010's installation program, they do, but still put a lot of stuff in C:\.

So you'd better format that Vista partition and expand C:\ to it. Don't have any regrets doing so. Vista is crap compared to Seven.

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NightKev
Posted on 01-07-10 01:21 PM Link | Quote | ID: 125146


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Uh, MM, it looks like most of his actual (non-OS) data is in the Vista partition, so formatting it would be... a rather bad idea, unless he's going to back-up 120GB suddenly.

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This is the real problem. He should have made a bigger partition for Seven to begin with. Like, half the HDD for Vista and the other half for Seven.

Now, unless he can backup all those data somewhere, he's going to have trouble fixing this.

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