Swapping Partitions
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From: Brian K on 31 Jan 2010 18:00 You probably know, but when BING boots, click Maintenance to get to the BING desktop.
From: MJMIII on 31 Jan 2010 18:14 "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ZWn9n.4803$pv.3567(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > "MJMIII" > >> Do I need to boot to the CD to access this desktop? > > > No, everything will be done from installed BING now. In Partition Work, is > BING at the end of the 600 GB HD? I got there, but I didn't realize BING installed on Dell's 63mb diagnostic partition at the beginning of the 600GB drive. View Mbr beside Vista it says: Partition Active 149997mb HPFS/NTFS Properties for Vista: Starting Ending LBA Sectors C H S C H S 129024 307194426 8 8 1 1023 254 63
From: MJMIII on 31 Jan 2010 18:19 "MJMIII" <balrog(a)castaway.net> wrote in message news:xaydnWwiRM13k_vWnZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:ZWn9n.4803$pv.3567(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... >> >> "MJMIII" > >>> Do I need to boot to the CD to access this desktop? >> >> >> No, everything will be done from installed BING now. In Partition Work, >> is BING at the end of the 600 GB HD? > > I got there, but I didn't realize BING installed on Dell's 63mb diagnostic > partition at the beginning of the 600GB drive. > > View Mbr beside Vista it says: > Partition Active 149997mb HPFS/NTFS > > Properties for Vista: Starting Ending C H S C H S 8 8 1 1023 254 63 Damned wrap!!! LBA Sectors 129024 307194426
From: Brian K on 31 Jan 2010 18:26 "MJMIII" <balrog(a)castaway.net> wrote in message news:xaydnWwiRM13k_vWnZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> > I got there, but I didn't realize BING installed on Dell's 63mb diagnostic > partition at the beginning of the 600GB drive. > > View Mbr beside Vista it says: > Partition Active 149997mb HPFS/NTFS > > Properties for Vista: > Starting Ending LBA > Sectors > C H S C H S > 129024 307194426 > 8 8 1 1023 254 63 LOL. Installing BING to the Dell partition shouldn't have happened but it's no big deal. We can fix it when everything is finished. Or leave it alone. Which Dell is it? I'm using a Dell 9150 at present. Yes, that starting sector offset is 2048 sector aligned. 129024/2048 is an integer. As expected.
From: Brian K on 31 Jan 2010 18:27
"MJMIII" > Damned wrap!!! > It's annoying. |