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Old February 9th 06, 04:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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I can feel your frustration, Mike. Sorry if I'm a PITA but I would rather
re-ask and make sure I understand rather than plod along and find out I
misunderstood what you had said.

Thanks for the clarification re arranging the laptop partition. I wasn't
sure if that's what you meant, originally. I understand your position and
thank you for your guidance throughout this little journey. It has been an
education. However I think I'll stop it right there; if you are
uncomfortable, you can imagine how uncomfortable I am to proceed, blindly so
to speak.

And thanks for the last bit of info re autoexec. At least I have
successfully partitioned one computer, even if it is one that's on the
shelf.

regards

Dan
"Mike M" wrote in message
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Dan,

Repeating my earlier post, I'm sorry but I can't and won't comment further
on how you should arrange the partition layout on your laptop as I have
zero experience or knowledge of how Compaq may have arranged their
recovery system and how when used this recovery system may then interact
with a different layout.

Turning to the partition listing you posted. The second entry if that of
an extended partition and this will never appear as such in Windows
Explorer, only any volumes that the partition contains such as the Volume
entry in your list. If the size of the volumes in an extended partition
total less than the size of the extended partition this would appear as
unallocated space. In your case the Volume System_S occupies the entire
extended partition.

Last thing, I still don't know how to handle the TMP and TEMP problem
via autoexec.


As I mentioned in an earlier post all that is involved is to replace the
default target for the TMP and TEMP variables in autoexec.bat with the
required location. For example you may want to use a folder E:\Temp as
the target instead of C:\Windows\Temp in which case you would replace the
entries
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
by
SET TEMP=E:\TEMP
SET TMP=E:\TEMP
This would then redirect applications using the TEMP or TMP environment
variables to create their temporary files in the folder E:\Temp. Note
however that some applications have the location C:\Windows\Temp hard
coded in them meaning that such applications will always use the
C:\Windows\Temp folder regardless of the settings for TEMP and TMP.
--
Mike Maltby



Dapper Dan wrote:

I hear you, Mike. I will tread carefully and avoid the D: partition
altogether.

I recently reformatted and did a clean install via new Recovery Discs
purchased from HP/Compaq. This is a Compaq Presario laptop, model
1200 CA. It's 800 MHz with a 10 GB hard drive, partitioned as follows;
MBR Entry 0 Partition 6793 MB Fat-32 (11/Bh)
MBR Entry 1 Partition 2793 MB Extended (15/Fh)
System_S Volume 2793 MB Fat-32 (12/Ch)

There's a warning that the file id should be 11 on the 3rd entry
(System_S). BTW, when I scan or defrag, the system show only the
first and third partition.

Hope this is sufficient feedback for you to provide additional
guidance. If not, were you suggesting not to repartition the laptop
or were you simply saying not to mess with the existing D:

Last thing, I still don't know how to handle the TMP and TEMP problem
via autoexec.




 




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