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| Thread ID: 93922 | 2008-10-06 21:41:00 | ASUS 5FRL - Unusual problem | Tony.br (4018) | Press F1 |
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| 710164 | 2008-10-06 21:41:00 | My Daughter is the relieving Principal at a small country school until the end of the year They needed a new laptop and as all other computers are XP we needed one that could have that installed. I did the hunting and we finally settled on an ASUS 5FRL which had Vista installed and came with both VISTA and XP CD’s etc (9 disks in all) I am very happy with it in almost every way The CD's apparently enable you to Install Windows XP and apparently it will roll it back to Vista at some later date However, as my daughter is only the principal until the end of the year and the new one may very well like to try Vista so I was going to Dual boot it. This is something I have done with a number of machines (never with Vista though) and I have a well established procedure that I follow The ASUS has a 7 gb hidden partition (possibly it copies Vista into there), a 80 gb Vista partition and a 60 gb data partition I resized the data partition to 20 GB and I was going to create 2 x 55 gb approx primary partitions when I came across a major snag I absolutely MUST have access to the drive from my disk partitioning software so I can alter which partitions are hidden and which are active BUT I discovered that my disk does not see the drive at all. I use ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR and I have tried several others Like PARAGON PARTITION MANAGER etc and all are the same in that they do not see the internal drive. Acronis supports external USB drives just fine and I have a friend with an all SATA Drive setup and they all see equally as well, but with the ASUS, no way This means that unless I can find an answer to this, I may just have to resize the partitions back and use the ASUS method which is a one way street I have hunted everywhere and have no answer so you guys are my last hope. |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 710165 | 2008-10-06 22:17:00 | Hi Tony, is there anything on the data parttion at present, if not, just use the XP install CD to create the partitions from scratch,ie: delete the 80 and the 60, create 30-40 for XP, install, then create data & vista partition, then use Vista cd to install vista O/S to the new vista partition creating your dual boot and the same time. | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 710166 | 2008-10-06 22:26:00 | DON'T delete the small partition, its needed for Vista recovery. Take a look at the pamphlet that came ith the laptop - about downgrading to XP, theres a setting in the BIOS you need to alter for the drives. It shows you in there. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 710167 | 2008-10-06 22:44:00 | Many thanks for the comments I had no intention removing it I more am curious to know if anyone has an explanation as to why the BOOT Cd's don't see the drive If I cant find out I will follow the instructions that came with the CD's |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 710168 | 2008-10-07 00:20:00 | I'd tell you if I could remember what it said..........its only certain of the F5's. | pctek (84) | ||
| 710169 | 2008-10-07 00:36:00 | Many thanks for the comments I had no intention removing it I more am curious to know if anyone has an explanation as to why the BOOT Cd's don't see the drive If I cant find out I will follow the instructions that came with the CD's I can only imagine the drive is a model later than the CD you have....! You are talking about your partition cd arent you, not the o/s cd's! |
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