Disk Resizing 3gb To Recover 17gb Vista
Oct 24, 2008
this is my first enquiry but probably not my last :-) To cut a long story short (as my wife turned off the PSU to the PC when I wrote the whole thing out last time) I have a tablet PC with no bootable CD/DVD or floppy. I managed to install my XP tablet on a new HD by PXE creating a dos and 2 other partitions. I then upgraded to my new Vista Ult. and almost everything seems OK. I will post Q's re the incompatibilities later.
The problem is I made the DOS partition too big, 20gb, and now need to resize it down to 3gb to recover 17gb more for Vista (total size of disk 80gb). I went into management console as usual and tried to resize the C: partition but the options are greyed out. Parttions are Dos C: 20gb, Vista D: 46gb, Install files E: 10gb
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Dec 4, 2009
My Vista Home Premium (SP2) is corrupted to near unusability. Proof?
1. I click the Firewall control panel and I get an error "Error loading firewall.cpl. Firewall.cpl is not a valid win32 application" It sure is not valid: when I go to C:WindowsSystem32Firewall.cpl, it shows a file of ZERO bytes!
2. I try to click the Windows program installation/repair/removal control panel, and the window blinks in and out.
It's been 28 months since this Vista installation has been in use, and often rescued in ways that avoided a clean install entirely.
I think it is now time to do the clean install. For one thing, the 100 GB Seagate drive (the one with the bootable Vista partition) after about two years revealed 432 read errors with a region of the hard disk (discovered by 'ddrescue' while using Ubuntu Linux), probably because the HP Pavilion dv9500t like all HP notebooks is notorious for overheating, and this failure to cool damages CPUs and shorten hard disk life.
MY PROBLEM: I am now living on the other side of the world. I made recovery disks using HP's recovery manager, and I think the recovery partition is deleted (not sure), but they were left with relatives on the other side of the world (mistakenly). HP does not answer requests for how to get recovery disks.
QUESTION: I have recovered the product key for the Vista installation using product key recovery software (the Microsoft label on the bottom of the computer is smudged beyond readability, not so for HP's label). Is there a way to download Vista installation somehow and use my product key to autheneticate the installation?
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May 20, 2009
I just build a new computer and installed Vista Home Premium (64 bit). I only have one hard drive (640 GB). I've added a few applications and music and pictures from an external HD. I checked my disk usage last night and it said I had used 195 GB! I got that by right clicking on the C drive and then properties. I noticed I had a Windows.old directory and manually deleted it then emptied my wastebasket. Still no improvement. I tried to do a disk defragment before I went to bed and let it run overnight. It was still running when I woke up so I cancelled it (I don't know how far it was as it doesn't show a progress bar like in XP). I rechecked and now it says I've used 208 GB (more than before).
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Jun 2, 2008
My Vista Operating System Hard Disk Just crashed. It was running Vista Home Premium. My Computer is an HP 8170in media centre PC.
I have managed to salvage most data off it from the other partitions as well as the C: except the my documents which has all my user files on them. I have already tried using an XP computer to get into the hard disk but it doesnt allow me to change the securities from there. Have tried changing security ownership by using articles from the forum by
goin on the security tab in XP but its not allowing me to change this for the documents and settings. Is it located elsewhere by any chance?
Am i changing the wrong folder? At the minute it just shows the folder grayed out with no access to it... you do not have permission message and its disk size shown is 0mb. Assuming this is becuase of a security issue.
I also bought a new hard disk and used the hp restore disks to re add windows vista on that hard disk. Now on that system i cannot access my old hard disk and i get a blue screen. If i attempt to only boot from my old hard disk i get a 0x0000007b (0x78d2524 oxc0000034 ox00000000 0x00000000) error
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Jun 2, 2008
I have managed to salvage most data off it from the other partitions as well as the C: except the my documents which has all my user files on them. I have already tried using an XP computer to get into the hard disk but it doesnt allow me to change the securities from there. Have tried changing security ownership by using articles from the forum by goin on the security tab in XP but its not allowing me to change this for the documents and settings. Is it located elsewhere by any chance? Am i changing the wrong folder? At the minute it just shows the folder grayed out with no access to it... you do not have permission message and its disk size shown is 0mb. Assuming this is becuase of a security issue.
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Oct 8, 2009
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Feb 5, 2009
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Oct 16, 2009
I recently had to have Vista Business reinstalled b/c my computer crashed. I have a complete backup on an external drive using Vista Backup & Restore (keeping my fingers crossed it is a good one) but it is from several months ago so I decided to have the tech that was checking out my computer do a backup before reinstall. Unfortunately, he couldn't backup everything and I am missing quite a bit of stuff. I have no idea how the complete restore would work. Am I able to select certain data to restore? Does it restore things back to their original location?
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Mar 29, 2008
My Disk is split into 2 partitions, Vista (C: ) and Data (E, each is about 70 Gb. I do not use the Data partition. I want to delete it and allow Vista(C to use all 140 Gb. The Help pages suggest that if I delete (or reduce the size of) "Data", the free space becomes unallocated? Can I repartition the disk to allow Vista C: to acces all 140 Gb?
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Mar 13, 2009
I need to replace my wife's motherboard, and I am trying to minimize the amount of change. She is currently running XP, but the hardware is old enough that I cannot simply swap the MBs, because a new board will need a different HAL. I was thinking about installing XP and migrating applications. I was wondering what would happen if I cloned her disk to a SATA disk and installed a Vista upgrade on top of the XP disk. I would run setup and provide the appropriate drivers at the F6 prompt. She has used Vista on occasion when we are out-of-town. I have a separate userID on my laptop that is configured to look as much as possible like XP. The question is whether a Vista upgrade would work on top of an XP image that used a lot of older hardware.
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Jun 27, 2008
I've been running Vista now for over a year and ever since I made the switch, I've been annoyed, by how Vista deals with Wallpaper. I'm on using a widescreen monitor, with vista, it doesnt' resize the image to fit without stretching it. With XP, it would resize it while maintaining its proportions, but I can't seem to find a way to do that with vista.
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Jun 7, 2008
The Taskbar is too wide resulting in part of the clock not being visible. how to resize top and bottom but does not mention sideways.Thinking this might be a need to resize the Desktop looked in Help but no joy there!
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Jul 29, 2009
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Apr 15, 2010
I have Vista. Just now, something happened to my Firefox window so that the bottom edge was below the bottom of the screen. I couldn't find a way to resize the window so that the bottom edge was visible. (I had to close and restart Firefox and it was okay.) Was there a way to resize a window without dragging the edge or corner? I had no way to get to the edge. I right clicked on the title bar and selected Size.
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Aug 29, 2008
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Feb 2, 2009
In windows mail, when selecting new stationery, a small applet would allow you to choose.
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Jul 29, 2009
Some trouble with IE & FireFox yesterday & I've
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I don't care about losing everything & starting from scratch as
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The only problem is, I was never given a Windows Vista disk with this
laptop & don't think I have ever had one.
How would I go about either doing a repair installation or just doing a
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Mar 23, 2008
The disk defragmentor that came with Vista shows only a circulating icon as it progresses. Is there a defragmentor which shows a) how badly the disk looks iniitally and b) how the defragmenting is progressing (as in my old XP system?
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Apr 28, 2009
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Mar 3, 2009
who is constantly having trouble with his Vista Laptop. His Vista 64 System details states that his 'D' drive is full, on going to the System properties through the system protection HIS 'D' drive it has been ticked, and it appears that any downloads that are automatic are loading onto the 'D' drive. On viewing my own Vista Basic,the same way my 'C' drive is ticked, and I do not have any problems
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Does Vista (Home Premium, in my case) defrag the hard drive(s) on its
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Sep 19, 2008
i recently bought a pc system with vista home premium already installed, av got no disks relating to vista with my system. iam planning to upgrade the emory,processor and graphics card but frightened if i do this will i lose vista when i connect the system back up? or how can a make a copy of my vista and put it on a disk??
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May 14, 2008
I have lots of bad sectors and not even able to do a restore to a previous restore point. I tried chkdsk/f but on restart it doesn't do the chkdsk. I have a Vista repair disk and I ran the repair but I still have the sector errors that prevent going to the previous restore point.
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Apr 7, 2010
For some reason, I cannot see a 1TB hard disk in Vista Explorer. There are no relevant messages in the event logs etc. I can save data to it (via apps, word, excel, downloads etc). I just cannot see it in windows when I go to my computer. Also, can't seem to find anything pertinent on the web, lost about a vista drive not being seen by windows 7 (vice versa), but not what I am looking for. My concern is that if Windows won't display the drive, it may be going bad and it's only 6 months old. Any pointer(s)
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Mar 23, 2008
I'm having difficulty in parsing this quote from Microsofts own website "The 64-bit editions of Windows Vista&8212;available for all editions of Windows Vista except Starter" Now, I have an x64 CPU architecture PC, 4 GB of system ram, and only the 32-bit version of Vista Premium* pre-installed*. And unless I'm mistaken, I'm only entitled to a Recovery disk that I create or order from Hewlett Packard. I don't want to buy an upgrade or full install of the 64-bit Ultimate Edition. However, I do want the 64-bit version of the Premium Edition instead. Microsoft says that I can get a 64-bit edition here: Even if it requires a custom install (AKA "fresh install), I'm OK with that. Can I obtain the 64-bit Premium Edition (if it exists)? Has anyone done this?
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May 23, 2008
I have just recently bought a new computer built from scratch and im looking to put vista on it but what i want to do is wipe the old computer clean so it has no windows on it and then install vista on the new computer using the disk i used for my old one and then activte it. Is it possible for me to do that? and if it is can someone tell me what i will need to do?
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Sep 6, 2009
I there anyway to add Clear Recent Items In the Disk Cleanup Files In Vista? As I need to do it manually.. I do not want CCleaner
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Aug 12, 2009
I refer specifically to this Tutorial;
Disk Management - Shrink Partition
A bit of background first. I have recently had installed a new 320GB Hard-drive to my Laptop [see my Specs]. The allocation of partition [volume] space has been divided evenly between the C:[Acer] - 139GB, and the D:[Data] - 138GB, Drives on the HD.
This is what I have;
Questions;
Question 1; Is this setup division just the 'norm' for allocating volume space for each drive? In this case it is more or less a 50:50 share of the available space [PQ Service on a hidden partition takes up the rest]....why not 65%[C]:35%[D]? Question 2; Is it necessary for the partition volume of the Data drive to more or less mirror that of the Acer drive? Question 3; If answer to Q2 is 'not necessarily so', am I then able to partition the Data drive to create a new drive partition of about 60GB, or are there any pitfalls in playing around with this particular drive? If possible, I'd like to create a new drive on the HD for personal data storage.
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Mar 26, 2008
Can I down grade to XP if I do not have a recovery disk? I just bought a new laptop with Vista, I despreatly need the office programs, my Office 2003 disk is not compatible with Vista. I would rather down grad to XP than have to buy 2007 Office software.
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Jun 19, 2009
Is it illegal to use the same Vista Disk on the same computer 2 times?
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