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How do you? Copry partition 2 external hdd?

post #1 of 8
6/11/09 at 10:56pm
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well thats about it ?Got super great info on my last question!!!!! I have a seagate 250 gb external hard drive.Can i some how copy the Recovery partition to the external harddrive?wheni go to "my computer" under recovrey partition (D do i just copy the file in the recovery partition? its only 185 kb ...... D:has 6.58 gb in it . so whats that about? also can i leave my ext. hdd in fat32 or does it need to b NTFS?
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post #2 of 8
6/12/09 at 1:26am
You'll need to copy the entire contents of your recovery partition to the external. You can do that by either right-clicking on D:, selecting copy, and pasting it into your external drive or by going into control panel > folder options and select "show hidden files, folders, and drives" and uncheck "hide protected operating system files", then going into drive D:, selecting everything (a lot more should be there than what you initially saw) and copying it that way.
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post #3 of 8
6/12/09 at 1:45am
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can i leave my extrnal in fat32 or should i reformatt 2 ntfs?
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post #4 of 8
6/12/09 at 1:51am
NTFS is more space-efficient, but you can leave it in FAT32. It's not going to make a difference for your recovery partition since it's not your system partition.
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post #5 of 8
6/12/09 at 2:33am
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so i guess that now iv got a recovery point i can try fixing these bad sectors. I have a back up of all my files also.should I just reformatt?last time i tried to fix the bad sectors my hp fritzzed out on me. Thanks for ur Help!!
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post #6 of 8
6/12/09 at 2:45am
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Originally Posted by justinmisti2005 View Post
so i guess that now iv got a recovery point i can try fixing these bad sectors. I have a back up of all my files also.should I just reformatt?last time i tried to fix the bad sectors my hp fritzzed out on me. Thanks for ur Help!!
If you've got a lot of bad sectors showing up that aren't fixed with CheckDisk (chkdsk, Windows' file system checker), then you may have a failing hard drive in your computer and need to get it replaced.
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post #7 of 8
6/12/09 at 3:08am
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honestly i'm not sure if it fixed the sectors or not.i havent messed w this thing in many months.ive already checked prices on hdd's.around $80 dosent sound bad.but thats a last resort.So reformatting wont rewrite the bad sectors i guess?(thats why their bad)
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post #8 of 8
6/12/09 at 3:12am
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Originally Posted by justinmisti2005 View Post
honestly i'm not sure if it fixed the sectors or not.i havent messed w this thing in many months.ive already checked prices on hdd's.around $80 dosent sound bad.but thats a last resort.So reformatting wont rewrite the bad sectors i guess?(thats why their bad)
I'd run chkdsk first just to see if it's just the file system and not the actual disk that's bad. If chkdsk can't fix the sectors, then it's most likely the hard drive itself that has a problem, and reformatting isn't going to solve it.

If you know which company made your hard drive, you can also download a utility from the company's web site to check your hard drive for errors.
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