X60 & AVStation Now

[notabenem]

I have the image of the EISA partition, but I strongly doubt it would be the partition for AVS Now. Two facts make me think this:
1. Before reinstalling my laptop, the REGULAR windows started, when I hit one of the AVS buttons.
2. I have never booted this partition (did not now how to do it), but a close inspection did not reveal any AVS files in the image... Once I will have a virtual machine, I will try to boot it. BTW it is a regular NTFS file system, just the filesystem flag was intentionally changed, so it can' be used from within Windows.

[SkiBunny]

I got an X60 a couple of weeks ago and absolutely love it...

X60 is used by more than one manufacturer, lol

[YourMum]

X60 is used by more than one manufacturer, lol

So I see... but the Samsung one is better than the IBM one

[SkiBunny]

yes could be if you want a bigger widescreen.

my X60 is only 12" screen, but 3.5 pounds and it runs for a full 8 hours on a single battery charge.
It's no good for movies, but it gets internet access from almost anywhere - even in the middle of a park.

[.tom]

The Samsung X60 has also a big benefit the IBM X60 doesn't has: It's battery won't explode: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...id=BATT-LENOVO

[Brigand21]

I suspect my input might be a few months too late, but I guess it can't do any harm... as some may remember, i am a Samsung tech for the laptop support phone line, and as such i could be considered the fount of ALL knowledge

The 86Gb is due to two programs, AV station AND Firstware recovery pro.

AV station if i recall, takes up around 3Gb on the X60 and firstware the remainder.

If you are re-installing Windows, you will most likely end up nuking AV station but Firstware is in a hidden partition so it "should" remain intact depending on how exactly you decide to format your drive.

To re-install AV station after formatting and re-installing windows i'm afraid the only way of reliably re-creating the partition is to wipe the HDD completely inlcuding any partitions, and boot off the AV station disk. Then following the instructions included with the notebook, trying to install onto a pre-partitioned disc will almost always fail at some stage.

In order to administer Firstware recovery pro, to either remove it completely or modifiy it's behaiviour, can only be undertaken within windows itself, however you can recover from a pre-created firstware recovery file by tapping / mashing the F6 key on boot up.


There you go, some nuggets from the "Dark Side"

[.tom]

Wow, thanks for your input - quite interesting!

[YourMum]

Very useful - thanks Brigand21. So I should be able to recover some of the "lost" space... I will have to investigate further, as Windows seems to only report the 1 partition of 86GBb... I might try out PartitionMagic or something like that to see what's up.

I think I decided that I don't need AVStation Now, so I could at least get that back... after a quick look online to see what Firstware Recovery Pro does, it looks like it tells the BIOS that the disk is actually smaller than it is (see http://www.phoenix.com/en/Products/T...ro/default.htm)

Frankly, I don't need that either. I do backups of the data I need, and system restore points in XP are good enough for my needs... so I shall see if I can reclaim all the disk space... (famous last words, perhaps!!)