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Ctrl F11 Restore Question
I just re-installed windows XP last night and was wondering if it is too late to restore it to its orginal state using F11? I checked my disk management and it still has a partition of 4.93GB that is unknown. I am also wondering if this will fix my problem with the fact that I really have a 100GB hard drive even though it is only showing 65GB after re-installing.
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Posted September 2nd, 2006 21:00
If you just re-installed in the same partition with out monkeying with the restore partition or the diagnostic one you should still be able to do a restore.265
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Posted September 2nd, 2006 22:00
@trailrated1 wrote:
If you just re-installed in the same partition with out monkeying with the restore partition or the diagnostic one you should still be able to do a restore.
No, you can't. Reinstalling XP changes the Master Boot Record which is why the information in the link that sparkenh provided is required.
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Posted September 2nd, 2006 23:00
@mergner26 wrote:
I just re-installed windows XP last night and was wondering if it is too late to restore it to its orginal state using F11? I checked my disk management and it still has a partition of 4.93GB that is unknown. I am also wondering if this will fix my problem with the fact that I really have a 100GB hard drive even though it is only showing 65GB after re-installing.
No, it likely won't fix the problem. A 100gb drive shows as 93. If you see 65, plus the 4.93 is 70, then the other 23 is likely a GHOST storage partition. Either a clean install of XP, removing all partitions first, will give you the entire drive, OR, it's been reported that if CTRL F11 functions (when you repair it), it gives you an option to reclaim the Ghost backup area (at least it was reported a few months back).265
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Posted September 3rd, 2006 01:00
just so you know, the unknown partition should be smaller, i don't know what the deal with that is. there's usually a partition about that size but it's for back-up stuff.265
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Posted September 3rd, 2006 11:00
i just checked all of the partitions and one is 47MB, 4.92GB, 65.20GB, 21.57GB, and 520MB. No idea what any of that actually means though. Also, in the backup folder there are old files from Norton Ghost but they are unusable because i don't have the program anymore.Message Edited by mergner26 on 09-03-200607:44 AM
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Posted September 3rd, 2006 17:00
u have 5 partitions?? that's very, very odd in a Dell computer, actually in any computer. there shouldn't be more than 4!
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Posted September 2nd, 2006 21:00