Hi,
I have an Asus F5VL laptop which has a hidden partition for recovery purposes. The preloaded OS is Windows Vista Home Premium 32x. What I want to do is to transfer the hidden partition to an external HDD and format the laptop disk so I can do a clean windows xp install with no hidden partitions etc. I tried to do this with norton ghost but the problem is that the recovery partition doesn't boot from external HDD. To be specific it boots but after a while an error appears which says that a file is missing somewhere in C:\.
So to sum up, I want to move the hidden partition to an External HDD. I want it remain hidden and bootable so when I tell my BIOS to boot from USB to be able to restore my system to factory defaults.
P.S: When I use Gparted to manage my disks the hidden partition is flagged as hidden and lba (I don't know what lba is)
Thank you in advance,
Constantine
I have an Asus F5VL laptop which has a hidden partition for recovery purposes. The preloaded OS is Windows Vista Home Premium 32x. What I want to do is to transfer the hidden partition to an external HDD and format the laptop disk so I can do a clean windows xp install with no hidden partitions etc. I tried to do this with norton ghost but the problem is that the recovery partition doesn't boot from external HDD. To be specific it boots but after a while an error appears which says that a file is missing somewhere in C:\.
So to sum up, I want to move the hidden partition to an External HDD. I want it remain hidden and bootable so when I tell my BIOS to boot from USB to be able to restore my system to factory defaults.
P.S: When I use Gparted to manage my disks the hidden partition is flagged as hidden and lba (I don't know what lba is)
Thank you in advance,
Constantine