vista basic sp1 - recovery disc

I have lenovo with vista home basic sp1 and they don't give me the recovery
disk and gives the option one key recovery ( not so good ), and i am using
dual booting with linux, when i want to remove the linux it asks for recovery
disk to clean the boot sector, -- so please help me how to get recovery disk
from vista sp1 and also help how to increase the size of the primary
partition i.e C it is only 30 Gb, for me it is too low.

Hi,

Since Lenovo chose not to supply these (did you contact them and ask?),
you'll need to obtain a disk on your own. Either copy a friend's or purchase
a generic oem disk.

To use Vista's disk management tool to expand the volume, the free space
must be immediately after it as seen in diskmgmt.msc. If it is, then simply
right click it and choose expand. If not, you will need to use a third party
tool to manipulate and slide the volumes around so that it is (no tool can
expand a volume forward, the space must be behind the target volume). Ones
that can do this include BootIT NG from terabyteunlimited and Acronis' Disk
manager.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"raja" <raja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have lenovo with vista home basic sp1 and they don't give me the recovery
> disk and gives the option one key recovery ( not so good ), and i am
> using
> dual booting with linux, when i want to remove the linux it asks for
> recovery
> disk to clean the boot sector, -- so please help me how to get recovery
> disk
> from vista sp1 and also help how to increase the size of the primary
> partition i.e C it is only 30 Gb, for me it is too low.

raja;856391 Wrote:
> I have lenovo with vista home basic sp1 and they don't give me the
> recovery
> disk and gives the option one key recovery ( not so good ), and i am
> using
> dual booting with linux, when i want to remove the linux it asks for
> recovery
> disk to clean the boot sector, -- so please help me how to get recovery
> disk
> from vista sp1 and also help how to increase the size of the primary
> partition i.e C it is only 30 Gb, for me it is too low.

Hello raja,

You don't specify the model you have , so it is difficult to be
precise. Oem manufacturers usually divide the hard drive between a C
partition - for Vista and you to use, and at least one more partition (
sometimes called D - sometimes "hidden", i.e. without a drive letter ) -
for recovery purposes.

Therefore the amount of space for you to use is limited. 30gb does seem
small - is that the total size of C, or the space left on it?

Do not be tempted to remove, or tamper with the recovery partition -
from the Lenovo website , I found this

> The space is taken up as the service partition where the OneKey recovery
> image is saved, the service partition does not shown as a local
> partition in the OS. Do not modify or remove the service partition using
> a third party HDD tool, otherwise your OneKey recovery will become
> malfunctioned.
> 'Lenovo Support'
(http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/le.../2413/407.html)

To increase the space on the C partition, it is best to move data you
don't need to access regularly, e.g. video and music files , onto a
separate hd - you can get ones that plug into your usb port.

If you have a thinkpad, there seems to be a way of creating a recovery
disc,

'Pre-Installation steps - ThinkWiki'
(http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Pre-Installation_steps)

And similar for 3000 laptop and R51

'CodeProject: Lenovo 3000 N100 Laptop. Free source code and programming
help'
(http://www.codeproject.com/KB/hardwa...o3000N100.aspx)

'Charles Curley - Software Engineer, Writer - Linux on Lenovo R51'
(http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html)

However I believe they just reset your entire machine back to it's
factory settings.

You may like to try this

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/14...very-disc.html

Hope that helps

SIW2


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