Posted on 01/13/2011 3:14:20 PM PST by chaosagent
How did the Recovery Partition move from one hard drive to another?
When he turned his machine on yesterday, he noticed his Ext Drive had moved from H: to I:
In checking he found he no longer had a D: partition on his desktop HD. Instead the D: partition and data had moved to the Ext. HD and was now drive H: pushing the data partition down to I:
I had him plug the Ext HD into his wife's laptop and the extra partition is seen there also, complete with all the Recovery files.
He had no idea how this happen, and in fact doesn't know anything about partitions, moving them, or anything else along those lines.
Anyone have any idea what happened?
I thought this was the beginning of a joke, like “Why did the chicken cross the road.” No idea, other than someone plugged it into a different USB port and went into the directory and relabeled it and then .... got to the other side?
Undocumented feature.
/unhelpful quip
I have seen drive letters get bumped around due to plugging in external volumes. Along with that, it is possible that the external got mapped to D at one point, and some always-running HP software noticed D didn’t have the expected recovery partition on it, and duly recreated it.
This is why I hate OEM Windows installations.
I would look at yourself before taking your friend’s word for what happened. Sounds like you are his tech support friend and he has some PEBKAC issues.
One byte at a time?
Unauthorized Migration?
Underpants Gnomes
lol.
seatsie, problem exists between the chair and keyboard. ;-0)
It is an Obama recovery. No one knows where or when it will eventually show up.
I would look at yourself before taking your friend’s word for what happened. Sounds like you are his tech support friend and he has some PEBKAC issues
Unfortunately I can’t look at it myself. He’s in FL and I’m in TX. And I’m his tech-support guy.
That’s why I had him plug the Ext HD into his wife’s laptop. He no longer sees a D: Recovery Drive on his HP desktop.
When he plugs the Ext HD into the laptop he then sees the Recovery partition with all the files on the laptop along with his normal partition and files.
His Ext. HD now has two partitions instead of one.
I have seen drive letters get bumped around due to plugging in external volumes. Along with that, it is possible that the external got mapped to D at one point, and some always-running HP software noticed D didn’t have the expected recovery partition on it, and duly recreated it.
This is why I hate OEM Windows installations.
This kind of makes sense, but would it have created a new partition on the Ext. HD, copied all the Recovery files over, and then deleted the old partition?
You never know with these OEM “added value” programs.
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