Thread: Which Netbook Do You Have?
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Old 06-02-2009, 04:36 PM   #150
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Originally Posted by astra View Post
What do you mean no restore utility?
It comes with 4 partitions. 2 big chunks - Drive C: & D: and 2 smaller, invisible chunks, the bigger of the two is 5G and it was 50% full, I believe it has the whole image for restoration, the smaller of the two, 40-50M. Dunno its purpose, I didn't investigate and looked into it. I wiped drive clean, partitioned and installed XP Pro on it.


Are you planning to edit pics on your netbook?
Ok, if it has a restore (image) partition it's still there on the old drive; just like I want it to be. The new drive has nothing but Windows 7 and apps on it. If I want to revert to XP, I'll deal with it then. Right now I’m interested in getting a production machine running.

If the old drive indeed has the restore partition, I might use the rest of it to hobby Linux, but I haven't decided on that yet. I might just use a thumb drive/SD card to do that instead.

I don’t plan on doing much photo work on it, but I’m sure it has enough oomph to run PS 6, after all I ran it for years on a PIII 1.5 GHZ with a half Gig of RAM.

Where did you get XP Pro? If I had a copy of that, I might decide to not deal with Windows 7 at all. After all, M$ will quit supporting that just about the time the RC expires, so I’ll need to deal with upgrades one way or another.
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