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    Hidden partition on external hard drive?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by samanddusti, Sep 25, 2007.

  1. samanddusti

    samanddusti Notebook Enthusiast

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    I guess I backed up the computer using both thinkvantage and through vista but now my external hard drive will only show me 80Gigs of the space supposedly used on the drive. In other words under the drive properties it says there is only 128gigs used but when I explore the drive I can only find 80 of that??
    Any suggestions.
     
    samanddusti, Sep 25, 2007
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    On Vista, Disk Management under Computer Management should show you the partitions.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 25, 2007
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    gridtalker Notebook Virtuoso

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    Am I understanding this? The drive has 128g used but you only see 80 gigs?
     
    gridtalker, Sep 26, 2007
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    Change Explorer settings to show hidden and system files. You are probably not seeing the pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, and the restore point files.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 26, 2007
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    samanddusti Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok I adjusted the explorer settings and found all of the used space on the drive but now I am not sure which folders belong to the vista backup and which belong to the thinkvantage backup?
     
    samanddusti, Sep 26, 2007
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    I've not used either, so I'll be no help with that, sorry!
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 26, 2007
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