Bad Clusters (Was Re: Vista? Hello or goodbye?)

[Joost Schuttelaar]

Just get a .torrent for Vista and reinstall if you've paid for it?

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Joost Schuttelaar
The Hague, NL

On May 10, 2011, at 17:03 , Dave S wrote:

> Just out of interest, why the full format? Because resizing partitions
> on a drive with bad clusters is unlikely to work and/or may have
> unpredictable results?  If so, I may just try resizing them in Gparted
> anyway and get to keep the pieces if it breaks.
> 
> I'm not even sure this machine comes with a way to reinstall Vista
> (which I'm still prepared to try out for a while) - it may do, but I
> can't spot any hidden 5GB partitions (there is one hidden partition
> that is 39MB) or options to unhide them in the BIOS.  I was going to
> try it with ntfsclone and restore the image to a new NTFS partition,
> and then use the Neosmart Vista Recovery CD to fix the stuff that may
> break in the process - maybe I'll still do this.
> 
> I sort of don't care that much if I lose Vista in the process or not,
> but I wouldn't mind trying to keep it if I can, just to try it out for
> a while.
> 
> Or it's a full reinstall with WinXP and Linux I think, because I don't
> think I can necessarily guarantee that I can reinstall Vista on here,
> and I'm really not prepared to splash out on Win7.  (Seriously, I only
> stopped using Win2k and switched to XP for music making about two
> years ago - I am in no hurry for Win7, but might give Vista a try for
> a bit longer if I can manage to keep it.)
> 
> Urgh, computers!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> ~Dave
> 
> 
> On 10 May 2011 15:49, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
>> Do a full format, re-install Win7 and Linux, let the respective filesystems of either one sort it out.  A few bad clusters here and there isn't a terrible loss - but do keep an eye on it.
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