After I had an 8103 in my previous job I got myself an 8104 for Xmas and am now trying to get rid of the hidden recovery partition. Since I don't have an XP Pro CD I am trying to accomplish this with Partiton Magic 8.0 and Acronis Trueimage 8, but after sacrificing way too many hours over the weekend I am not closer to my goal than before. Things I tried: (a) converting everything to NTFS and then merging c: with the hidden partiton -> PC crashed during the merging step, (b) just recover the c: partiton as FAT32 -> doesn't create a bootable partition (no complaints about not finding anything because of old boot.ini pointing at a now non-existing partition, just doesn't create a c: partition), (c) same as (b) after converting c: to NTFS and then archiving that.
One problem seems to be that the recovered partiton is still a utility partition like the recovery partiton. Maybe I have to wipe the harddrive completely. Until now I just delete the partiton information before installing.
So now my question: has anybody gone through this before and was successful?
TIA,
1E-9
One problem seems to be that the recovered partiton is still a utility partition like the recovery partiton. Maybe I have to wipe the harddrive completely. Until now I just delete the partiton information before installing.
So now my question: has anybody gone through this before and was successful?
TIA,
1E-9
