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Hello!
I got my netbook yesterday and am already messing about with it…I have a few questions (couldn’t find definitive answers elsewhere in the forum but I may be blind).
1) I tried to resize the existing partitions but I got errors in Partition Magic and EASEUS Partition Manager – caused because there is the small restore partition at the beginning of the disk with no assigned drive letter. It was this error:
http://forum.easeus.com/viewtopic.php?t=17648&sid=7a6d0a80f7be1300414f8998e9b39841 The forum says to use V1.6.4 instead of latest to ignore the problem but I cannot find this version online to download?2) Failing this can someone point me to an easy way of installing XP Home from USB drive (so I can access the partition manager) – there seem to be loads of different methods on the net but for other OS or that look so complicated I nearly throw up. I think I may just buy an external DVD otherwise!
3) I would also like to know if I decided to keep the standard restore partition how to get a version with all the latest updates etc on it? Can I just overwrite the contents of the partition using the Toshiba restore manager once I have loaded all the gubbins to C:?
Thanks.
Got right the way through this lot:
http://www.vandomburg.net/installing-windows-xp-from-usb/
…then decided to not bother with the actual install from USB as the CD that came with the NC10 was SP3 and those instructions told you to copy SP2 over the top – probably make a right mess. The booting BartPE USB thing works a treat though!
In the end I just borrowed a mates CD drive and reinstalled XP properly.
I am a newbie here. But I am very interested to know why you need to install XP home? Is there something wrong with the OS that installed on set up?
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