So I want to fool around with my girlfriends computer a bit. she bought a NEC and I feel she got way more horsepower than what the current operating system is giving us. Just like Compaq in America, NEC ships windows with TONS of addons, multimedia and security crap. but she likes it. its her computer and she does not understand why things should be different.
So I want to backup the whole thing, create partitions so I can install multiple operating systems and if she wants to get it back, I'm just gonna untar the whole thing. but who thought backing up this computer would involved multiple system partitions.
Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 34042 273442333+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 34043 34286 1959930 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/sda3 34287 35137 6835657+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 35138 36483 10811745 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Command (m for help):
what the fuck are those extra partitions. what software do need them and why. Only the NTFS are visable under Windows, for some reasons the FAT32 is hidden and the magic type 12 partition can be mounted as NTFS under Linux. You don't want to see the crap that is inside.....
what a pain in the butt
{{count}} days later:
If I remember correctly, this FAT32 partition is a light version of windows which includes some tools that act as setup - Compaq does it also...
Most likely there is no ROM setup so be careful if you delete this partition :p