Q. I have a Dell Vostro 1520 and I deleted my Recovery partition so I can extend it onto my primary partition so I can have 234GB of free space as opposed to 218GB. I went to Disk Management but the "Extend Volume" selection is greyed out. On my friend's computer, he was able to extend his volume. How can I extend my volume? Because I only have 658MB of free space when I could have around 15GB of free space.
A. Lolz - then don't use Windows for the job.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu
If you get a disk, burn it, boot it, then press ALT and F2 (launcher) and type 'gparted' you'll get a graphical partition tool - very nice tool. Use that to do your partitioning. It has the added benefit that whilst you're working on your hard disk, you're not actually trying to use it at the same time.
Using a linux disk makes sense also because whilst Windows has it's secret, invisible files - linux can just see through the whole charade and do a nice job of partitioning.
If ever you have any trouble, you can install 'testdisk' (debian available in my dropbox http://dl.dropbox.com/u/446031/testdisk_6.11-1_i386.deb) by just double clicking it after the CD boots up - and this can recover deleted files, partly overwritten files, and repair just about any hard disk problem you can think of (including power cut halfway through doing a RAID configuration and wiping all of my data and partitions....).
Use the best tool for the job, don't trust Microsoft (even Steve Ballmer uses a 'nix machine - he uses a MacPro when he does mission - critical jobs).
Also, just keep an eye open in the shops. Have you got ANY idea how much this size hard disk is worth now? I bought my com with 320GB and a bit later on paid something like $45 to put a WD 'Barracuda' 500GB drive in - and now I can pick up 1000GB for less than half the value of the 820GB already in there!
Maybe buy a bigger drive, and keep your current one as a backup - to help stop it getting overloaded with video and old photo's.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu
If you get a disk, burn it, boot it, then press ALT and F2 (launcher) and type 'gparted' you'll get a graphical partition tool - very nice tool. Use that to do your partitioning. It has the added benefit that whilst you're working on your hard disk, you're not actually trying to use it at the same time.
Using a linux disk makes sense also because whilst Windows has it's secret, invisible files - linux can just see through the whole charade and do a nice job of partitioning.
If ever you have any trouble, you can install 'testdisk' (debian available in my dropbox http://dl.dropbox.com/u/446031/testdisk_6.11-1_i386.deb) by just double clicking it after the CD boots up - and this can recover deleted files, partly overwritten files, and repair just about any hard disk problem you can think of (including power cut halfway through doing a RAID configuration and wiping all of my data and partitions....).
Use the best tool for the job, don't trust Microsoft (even Steve Ballmer uses a 'nix machine - he uses a MacPro when he does mission - critical jobs).
Also, just keep an eye open in the shops. Have you got ANY idea how much this size hard disk is worth now? I bought my com with 320GB and a bit later on paid something like $45 to put a WD 'Barracuda' 500GB drive in - and now I can pick up 1000GB for less than half the value of the 820GB already in there!
Maybe buy a bigger drive, and keep your current one as a backup - to help stop it getting overloaded with video and old photo's.
How to perform factory restore without loosing data.?
Q. Is there any way I can perform a factory restore on my pc without a windows cd or backup? Without loosing all my data or most of my data?
A. Look - here's a few things to consider. A factory restore does delete your data but it's not gone for good. You can recover most of your files using a free recovery tool like Reccuva.
The other thing is that if you back up your data to an external HD first you won't loose it.
If you can't boot into windows you can extract your data by booting from a Linux CD/ USB. There are tons of tutorials on how to do this.
You can't really restore to factory settings if you didn't make recovery media or if you don't have a recovery partition.
You might be able to find a website with an iso file containing the factory settings for your machine but that's a long shot.
The other thing is that if you back up your data to an external HD first you won't loose it.
If you can't boot into windows you can extract your data by booting from a Linux CD/ USB. There are tons of tutorials on how to do this.
You can't really restore to factory settings if you didn't make recovery media or if you don't have a recovery partition.
You might be able to find a website with an iso file containing the factory settings for your machine but that's a long shot.
What i need to do if the desktop running in FAT32 during formating window XP?
Q. After i reboot the PC, the screen showing how big the hard disk as the process.However, the PC run in FAT32 but not in NFTS, so what shall i do? I need to clean all data as my PC are affected by virus.
A. Not sure I understand your question exactly.
As for viruses it will not matter if the system is running FAT32 or NTFS. Its the data that is stored on the computer which is the same no matter which filesystem was used. (There are slight exceptions on some filesystems allowing stronger ACLs and whatnot. But in windows XP running with administrator privileges it will not matter)
If you are looking to save your data and rebuild I would suggest either burning the data to CDs / DVDs or if the system will not boot using a recovery CD or live Linux and then burn the data or transfer it to another computer. If possible don't save any programs, and run a virus scan on the files before opening or running any of them.
If you are not going to rebuild I would suggest booting the system with a Linux live CD and running clamAV on all windows disks. update the database before using running. liveCDs databases will almost always be out of date
Maximum FAT32 filesystem size is 2TB. Microsoft purposely and artificially limited the GUI formatter to 32GB. the 32 is bits for addressing, not GB total.
To format a drive to be larger than 32GB use the CLI format tool distributed with windows.
As for viruses it will not matter if the system is running FAT32 or NTFS. Its the data that is stored on the computer which is the same no matter which filesystem was used. (There are slight exceptions on some filesystems allowing stronger ACLs and whatnot. But in windows XP running with administrator privileges it will not matter)
If you are looking to save your data and rebuild I would suggest either burning the data to CDs / DVDs or if the system will not boot using a recovery CD or live Linux and then burn the data or transfer it to another computer. If possible don't save any programs, and run a virus scan on the files before opening or running any of them.
If you are not going to rebuild I would suggest booting the system with a Linux live CD and running clamAV on all windows disks. update the database before using running. liveCDs databases will almost always be out of date
Maximum FAT32 filesystem size is 2TB. Microsoft purposely and artificially limited the GUI formatter to 32GB. the 32 is bits for addressing, not GB total.
To format a drive to be larger than 32GB use the CLI format tool distributed with windows.
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