Accessing a partition

[joepalm]

I want to copy the recovery image from my hard drive, the partition cannot be seen under windows XP only under fdisk. Is there anyway I can get to it?

Thanks
JP

 

[wolluf]

do you mean it can't be seen in explorer?

have you tried disk management? (run diskmgmt.msc). Its probably a hidden partition - but it may just not be filestore type recognised by XP (you don't say what fdisk says about it). it may just not have a drive letter assigned (you can do that in disk management).

http://www.boot-us.com

- boot manager, has hide/unhide partition functionality (part of its free functionality).

 

[joepalm]

FDISK shows PRI DOS, Fat32 and 4% od disk space used.
Disk Manager will only let me delete the partition every other option is greyed out.

Thanks
JP

 

[rvnguy]

Is your OS a factory installed OEM type?

Many OEM's place restore/OS files on a special partition to be used in place of a CD.

rvnguy
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[joepalm]

Yes factory OS is on seperate partition, I want to transfer it to a new hard drive so I can re-install.

Thanks
JP

 

[technome]

Just a thought...

Hate those hidden partitions

Can you access it with a DOS 6.22 boot disk ?
Create same type,size, volume name on the new disk, transfer via DOS. Then again, they probably encrypt it.

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[rvnguy]

Try the trial, or buy, Acronis True Image, this can clone the complete drive, all partitions. Just follow their excellent guides.

Clone the complete HD to the new HD. This new HD will be a "True" image of the original and will boot the original system with no problems.

If you are attempting to clone this for another system, I am afraid that MS will not allow this, especially in the case of an OEM OS distro.

Acronis

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

rvnguy
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