ASUS Eee PC Refurbishment, Part 4 - Good Intentions Gone Bad
Originally recorded May 8, 2017. It's months later now. I had become aware that the disc included with the system (that's utterly useless since the machine has no optical drive) will actually rewrite the entire drive and recreate the recovery partition automatically. That being the case, there was no need to keep the Windows XP recovery partition on the machine eating up a few gigabytes of hard disk space. I have a couple of external optical drives and should I ever need it, I can reinstall via them. So the idea here was to remove the recovery partition that was at the end of the drive, leaving the other partition with Windows 7 intact. That's easy, except I wanted to reclaim that space, so that means loading GPartEd and having it work some magic. Some magic tricks don't work right every time. This was one of those times. There's one more part coming on this blasted machine.
Originally recorded May 8, 2017. It's months later now. I had become aware that the disc included with the system (that's utterly useless since the machine has no optical drive) will actually rewrite the entire drive and recreate the recovery partition automatically. That being the case, there was no need to keep the Windows XP recovery partition on the machine eating up a few gigabytes of hard disk space. I have a couple of external optical drives and should I ever need it, I can reinstall via them. So the idea here was to remove the recovery partition that was at the end of the drive, leaving the other partition with Windows 7 intact. That's easy, except I wanted to reclaim that space, so that means loading GPartEd and having it work some magic. Some magic tricks don't work right every time. This was one of those times. There's one more part coming on this blasted machine.