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| 04 Jul 2011 | #1 |
| | Is my start up restore disk complete? I used a DVD+R 4.7GB disk and ran the restore disk program. When finished the disk lists 170MB used and 0 Free space. Shouldn't there be a lot of free space? How do I know everything needed is on the disk? Obviously I have no idea what I'm doing. |
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| 04 Jul 2011 | #3 |
| | Sorry if I've already posted this somewhere. Haven't gotten the hang of this. Also I should have said "repair" instead of "restore". I've already made 2 of them. The question I had was, " How do I know it is a viable disk?" As I stated," The disc should have a lot of free space left." Since it has none I wondered if it contained everything it should. |
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Quote: Originally Posted by JCED  Sorry if I've already posted this somewhere. Haven't gotten the hang of this. Also I should have said "repair" instead of "restore". I've already made 2 of them. The question I had was, " How do I know it is a viable disk?" As I stated," The disc should have a lot of free space left." Since it has none I wondered if it contained everything it should. A system repair disc is not a system restore disc, that is, the system restore disc is not a substitute for a Win 7 DVD. There are excellent tutorials here on using your System Repair Disc. My suggestion is: simply boot from the system repair disc and play with some of the options. My most common use is to go to the command prompt without running my installed Win 7 so that I can perform operations which can not be performed on a running installation. The system repair disc will install a mini-version of Win 7 in ram as a ram drive with the letter X. If you choose the Command Prompt option, you will get a X:> prompt as X is the letter assigned to the ram drive. |
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| 04 Jul 2011 | #6 |
| | Thanks for all of your time. I appreciate the help. |
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| 05 Jul 2011 | #7 |
| | The reason your disks show no free space left is because of the way the disk is burned. Once the disk is finalized you can't add anything more to the disk so it shows no free space, even though it isn't completely filled. You would have to burn it as a multi session disk to be able to add to it latter on. |
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| 05 Jul 2011 | #8 |
| | That answers my question. Thank you very much for the information. |
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