Got pup 2.12 humming (live cd) on a laptop but ended up putting the saved files on the part of the drive that is setup to restore the 'puter if anything goes wrong. I've never been able to (or tried) to access that part of the drive in the past, when in windows.
Hoping i didn't mess up the ability, of that restore partition, to restore my computer..if need be at some point. Don't think i've done it yet but will I be able to make 'restore' disks? Anyone know?
What should I do? I think I can access that part of the drive when I run pup on the live CD. Just delete those files?
If it matters & for whatever reason (dunno?), the main part of the drive is setup NtFS & the small restore partition is setup FAT.
saved files in verbotten place?
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jonyo
saved files in verbotten place?
Last edited by jonyo on Sat 13 Jan 2007, 02:51, edited 1 time in total.
They should not be stored there - Puppy should be able to find them & Windows will probably just ignore them
(they are just non-executeable nor readable to Winxx)
BUT if that normally "hidden" partition is needed - keep it clean.
You do NOT want to risk overwriting the sectors Windows expects
to find rescue data !
(they are just non-executeable nor readable to Winxx)
BUT if that normally "hidden" partition is needed - keep it clean.
You do NOT want to risk overwriting the sectors Windows expects
to find rescue data !
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jonyo
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jonyo
Decided to move the pup files (figured out how to do it in windoze) to the other partion & reboot.
Ended up with some error messages on reboot (in pup) but pup seemed to be working ok.
Moved them back to the verbotten partition & pup booted up normal
Thought pup saved eveything on one file? Quite sure there was a saved file & a swap file (maybe there are more that I missed or don't know about?).
Turns out I did this very thing on 2 computers..selecting saving to hard drive, but in the wrong place, or wrong partion (small & supposed to be reserved for windows restore).
How do i fix it?
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mx520
Ended up with some error messages on reboot (in pup) but pup seemed to be working ok.
Moved them back to the verbotten partition & pup booted up normal
Thought pup saved eveything on one file? Quite sure there was a saved file & a swap file (maybe there are more that I missed or don't know about?).
Turns out I did this very thing on 2 computers..selecting saving to hard drive, but in the wrong place, or wrong partion (small & supposed to be reserved for windows restore).
How do i fix it?
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mx520
Last edited by jonyo on Mon 12 Feb 2007, 02:30, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: saved files in verbotten place?
Do you happen to have a IBM Thinkpad?jonyo wrote:Got pup 2.12 humming (live cd) on a laptop but ended up putting the saved files on the part of the drive that is setup to restore the 'puter if anything goes wrong. I've never been able to (or tried) to access that part of the drive in the past, when in windows.
Hoping i didn't mess up the ability, of that restore partition, to restore my computer..if need be at some point. Don't think i've done it yet but will I be able to make 'restore' disks? Anyone know?
What should I do? I think I can access that part of the drive when I run pup on the live CD. Just delete those files?
If it matters & for whatever reason (dunno?), the main part of the drive is setup NtFS & the small restore partition is setup FAT.
I have the same situation.
Infact never used in Windows that particular 'backup' part, but used it in Puppy without problem.
Don't know what happens if I really execute a rapid backup/restore.