Snapafun
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Reading through a lot of the problems I wonder if yet another Vista problem exists that might be giving Vista user grief.
I'm using a Asus A6Km Notepad that has as its first Partition, a Recovery Partition. I brought this Notepad with WinXP installed and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate after re-partitioning the whole hard drive in preparation for PCLinuxOS 2007.
Initially I had no problems using the GRUB BOOTLOADER and enjoyed some months of dual booting.
Recently however, Vista's Updates stopped working and I could not do nor see a System Restore.
After browsing everywhere and attempting various things, I still have an operating dual boot system but could not cure the serious problem with Vista, so, following what many have said in other forums, I attempted a Vista Repair.
First from within Vista itself but I got a "not enough space" type error. Windows being its usual idiot self gave me no actual clue as to the real problem but my suspicions where aroused.
Next I attempted the Repair by booting directly from the installation DVD and got to the repair option OK only to be told that Vista needed 392MB ~ not enough space again ~ though C: drive has 13.7GB free.
My conclusion is that Vista is seeing the first primary partition on this hard drive as being the main partition, not so when I first installed Vista but maybe some update or program installation changed things.
So my concern here is whether or not FreeBCD can actually put this right without me having to go down the track of re-installing Vista only to find later upon installing some program or actioning some update that I'm back to this same situation.
I have kept all info and am able to supply heaps more if requested so just ask away.
One thing I'll mention now 'cause I'm not sure it has a bearing on this or not, is that I have yet another partition seen by Vista that is RAM based, something I got from somewhere to improve a program I prefer to run at its best.
To sum up the partition situation briefly :
Recovery (C: )
508MB free of 1.85GB ( This is obviously the first primary partition )
Local Disk (D: )
13.7GB free of 36.1GB ( This is the real C: partition )
Shared (E: )
6.25GB free of 19.5GB ( This is a FAT32 partition I share between Vista and PCLinuxOS )
ntfs-150 (G: )
122GB free of 146GB ( This is my half USB connected hard drive I use for storage and backups )
Boot (X: )
30.8MB free of 33.2MB ( This was the DVD default choice and I have no idea what this is ?? )
Anyone able to relate to any of this?
Reading through a lot of the problems I wonder if yet another Vista problem exists that might be giving Vista user grief.
I'm using a Asus A6Km Notepad that has as its first Partition, a Recovery Partition. I brought this Notepad with WinXP installed and did a clean install of Vista Ultimate after re-partitioning the whole hard drive in preparation for PCLinuxOS 2007.
Initially I had no problems using the GRUB BOOTLOADER and enjoyed some months of dual booting.
Recently however, Vista's Updates stopped working and I could not do nor see a System Restore.
After browsing everywhere and attempting various things, I still have an operating dual boot system but could not cure the serious problem with Vista, so, following what many have said in other forums, I attempted a Vista Repair.
First from within Vista itself but I got a "not enough space" type error. Windows being its usual idiot self gave me no actual clue as to the real problem but my suspicions where aroused.
Next I attempted the Repair by booting directly from the installation DVD and got to the repair option OK only to be told that Vista needed 392MB ~ not enough space again ~ though C: drive has 13.7GB free.
My conclusion is that Vista is seeing the first primary partition on this hard drive as being the main partition, not so when I first installed Vista but maybe some update or program installation changed things.
So my concern here is whether or not FreeBCD can actually put this right without me having to go down the track of re-installing Vista only to find later upon installing some program or actioning some update that I'm back to this same situation.
I have kept all info and am able to supply heaps more if requested so just ask away.
One thing I'll mention now 'cause I'm not sure it has a bearing on this or not, is that I have yet another partition seen by Vista that is RAM based, something I got from somewhere to improve a program I prefer to run at its best.
To sum up the partition situation briefly :
Recovery (C: )
508MB free of 1.85GB ( This is obviously the first primary partition )
Local Disk (D: )
13.7GB free of 36.1GB ( This is the real C: partition )
Shared (E: )
6.25GB free of 19.5GB ( This is a FAT32 partition I share between Vista and PCLinuxOS )
ntfs-150 (G: )
122GB free of 146GB ( This is my half USB connected hard drive I use for storage and backups )
Boot (X: )
30.8MB free of 33.2MB ( This was the DVD default choice and I have no idea what this is ?? )
Anyone able to relate to any of this?