Re: Express Recovery 2 - Gigabyte

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Also how do you create a 480gb partition on a 300gb seagate drive, is there
some new technology I'm unaware of?

Ok you guys, stop trying to cheer me up!
Sorry, Typo.... It's a 500gig drive.

I understand it is prudent to not backup this way, but in this instance it
is necessary.

Nothing is going to happen until you partition the free space, using disk
management

It's not FREE space, it's Unallocated as it should be. Then used by Express
recovery to create it's
own backup partition.

I could could go to Acronis now but I don't want this to beat me.

Patitioning The hard drive to 480gig Primary leaving the rest Unallocated
doesn't seem to be correct.
I know I'm missing something but can't work out what.
Couldn't find a contact number for Gigabyte.

I believe it works this way.
Express Recovery2 see the unallocated space. It makes it own partition from
this, but only enough to save
the backup file leaving the rest of the unallocated space intact.
Next time you do an Express Recovery2 backup, if overwrites the last back
and if more space is required for
the next backup it gets it from the unsed unallocted space it left behind
before and adds it to it's own partition.

Gees, it can't be that hard. What am I missing?

Any exports out there? Opps, typo again, I means experts!

Mickey






"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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Nothing is going to happen until you partition the free space, using disk
management
BTW haveing a recovery partition on the same drive is no recovery plan, if
the drive fails so does your recovery
Also how do you create a 480gb partition on a 300gb seagate drive, is
there some new technology I'm unaware of?

"Mickey Mouse" <Mickey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What am I doing wrong?
Purchased new system

4 gig ddr800 ram

EG43m-S2H mobo

300gig seagate HD

I'm having trouble with creating the Express Recovery2 backup.
I've partioned the hard drive to C: appx 480 gig (Primary) leaving the
rest as Unallocated.
The Unallocated space appx 19gig is much more than I really need for the
Express
recovery backup.
When I run Express Recovery 2 it tells me " NOT ENOUGH HHD FREE SPACE
FOR IMAGE BACKUP"
I've had similar trouble with this in the past with other system and know
I'm doing something wrong. Can anyone experienced with Express Recovery
help out?
P.s Before I have a breakdown!

Basically, for Express Recovery2.
1. Partition your hard drive leaving enough unallocated space usually
about 10gig.
2. Load system and drivers
3. Install Express Recovery2 and created backup.
Simple aye, apparently not!

HELP!

Mickey









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