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Windows Me+Partitions
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 ... 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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