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initially i thought Recovery solution will create the hidden area…
So I do a clean XP install by the provided CD, del all the partition during the setup, after I finiahed the installation,
I install all the driver, and some of the software, but I can’t install the recovery solution back..it is said it can’t find the hidden area, so that it can’t let me install the recovery solution.
What can I to make the recovery solution work ( that’s mean if there are a problem, i can’t press F4 on the startup to do recovery)There is no way to restore the recovery partition if it has been removed,
at-least not with the disks that came with the NC10.I did search around in the forum, and find out that it said it can only restore the hidden area when completed complete backup to DVD, but i didn’t do it..so , I think i may just give it up, actually I did send the e-mail to samsung, let see what they say..
I think someone else here emailed Samsung as well, and were told they couldn’t restore it.
If you had made a copy of the contents of the recovery partition and boot sector then it could be restored.
Personally I removed my recovery partition as it seemed like a waste of space to me. I have an external optical drive so I can just use that to recover/reinstall (sounds like you have one as well).
I agree with Alfihar.
One of the first things I did was to reformat the whole drive and reinstall a clean copy of Windows XP Home from the supplied Samsung Recovery Media via a USB stick.
Given the fact that Samsung supply recovery CDs and the low cost of external USB hard drives, I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would want a ‘recovery partition’ wasting space on their hard drive.
[quote1234311329=TCMuffin]I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would want a ‘recovery partition’ wasting space on their hard drive.[/quote1234311329]
The only two reasons I can think of are:-1) To make use of the backup part of Samsungs recovery software, though there are other solutions/software.
2) Don’t (intend to) own an external optical drive or a memory stick of sufficient capacity, or because the bundled recovery software is easy to use (maybe) and has instructions.
Actually the reason I want the recovery solution back is I can Press F4 at the start if there are problem of my windows and can do it anytime i want..
I’ve learned the more restoring options you have, the better in a krisis situtation. It’s only 6GB and it may save you when other solutions fail.
Recently I was trying to restore the backup of my old sammy on a friend’s sammy. It was a complicated process since the free program did not allow me to overwrite the active windows partition so I had to transfer first on D partition then copy it over to C. Things went bad so my final option was to hit restore and since that was MY restore not my friends I was able to complete the operation without optical drive available. So moral is keep as many restore options as possible, 6GB is not a big price for that.
Another fair comment.
I’m primarily using my Sammy as an on-site installation and network testing tool and a test-bed for dfferent operating systems. I don’t expect to be holding much (if any) data, so I have a very different view of recovery options.
Besides which, at home, I have NAS for backup across the whole of my network.
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There is no way to restore the recovery partition if it has been removed,
at-least not with the disks that came with the NC10.
[/quote1234324804]You can recreate the recovery partition if you have done a full backup to external dvd. I have tried it and it works.
I posted that info here:
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