Re: Off topic - Windows 7 partitioning

Gene Jannece <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.luni.tech
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It could be... I do have my Drobo attached to my windows 7 machine.

I also found this for the original post off of lifehacker.com

http://lifehacker.com/5256025/change-your-user-profile-location-in-vista

I know there is a way to do it. I just haven't had time to figure it out
again.
I honestly find formatting easier anyway.

Gene


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Keith T. Garner <[email protected]>wrote:

> Could that be GPT?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
>
> I just learned/started playing with GPT last week and that's one of the
> things it appears like, the 100MB (or 200 in some cases) first partition to
> store the information for the rest of them.
>
> Keith
>
> On Nov 27, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Jay Strauss wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Gene Jannece <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > If I remember correctly, i think the extra 100 megs partition acts as a
> emergency rescue disc. I've always just left it on. It's only a 100 megs out
> of a 1TB drive.
> > Gene
> >
> > Yes when you install win 7 it creates an extra partition of 100MB out of
> the space you allocate for c:
> >
> > I'm not sure how its used.  So in my situation I'd end up with 3
> partitions, emergency, c:, d:
> >
> > Jay
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