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  • How to Create Multiple Partitions in Windows?

    I have just carried out a clean install of Lion then used Boot Camp to install Windows.
    With Snow Leopard I had the ability to create multiple partitions in Windows but this seems impossible in Lion for whatever reason.
    Can anyone please tell me how to achieve this?

    If you're using Boot Camp, I'd post your question on the Boot Camp section:
    http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

  • Multiple partitions in windows XP

    Is it possible to create multiple partitions in windows XP with boot camp?
    Pls Anyone Help.

    Tuhintt wrote:
    Is it possible to create multiple partitions in windows XP with boot camp?
    Pls Anyone Help.
    What do you mean by "in Windows XP?"
    You need to clarify.
    Do you mean you want to split the XP partition into several smaller partitions, with parts of XP in each one?

  • How can i using MDT 2010 to deploy multiple partitions Windows 7 image?

    Hello,
    I am planning using MDT as a deploy windows 7 solutions. My Windows 7 is setup on parition 1 "C:" and users profile on parition 2 "D". I am already capture WIM for each paritions. How can i using MDT 2010 to deploy multiple partitions for Windows 7
    image? together
    Thanks

    Having the users folder on a separate partitions is a bad idea because the Windows Setup was not really designed for it, it's more of a afterfix. In addition to that the deployment solutions in general have problem dealing with multiple partions.
    Put it this way - The big warning text in the WAIK documentation about redirecting the users folder to another drive is there for a reason. It will break future offline servicing.
    It doesn't mean it can't be done, it just means it will take you three times (at least) longer to setup/troubleshoot your deployment solution, and you will be in a world of pain the next time you want to re-image the machine.
    This quote from a good friend of mine (Andreas Hammarskjold) describes it very well:
    Generally I would always recommend to only have ONE partition these days. Going down the route of making multiple partitions is like having multiple wives/girlfriends/lovers… it’s all fun and games for a while but ends with disaster 
    - Andreas H.
    / Johan
    Regards / Johan Arwidmark Twitter: @jarwidmark Blog: http://www.deploymentresearch.com FB: www.facebook.com/deploymentresearch

  • Is it possible to have multiple partitions on my hard disk drive and use Bootcamp to install Windows?

    Hi all,
    Here is my question: I have MBP early 2011 and was trying to install Windows 8 using Bootcamp but the option to install Windows is grayed out so I can’t click the box next to “Install or Remove Windows 7.” Is this because I have multiple partition on my hard disk drive? Is there anyway I can install Windows 8 using Bootcamp without deleting my partitions on my hard disk?
    Few more details:
    Mountain Lion 10.8.2
    Bootcamp 5.0.0
    Thanks for your response

    You can't create a Boot Camp partition on a drive you've already partitioned, and you can't install Windows 8 through Boot Camp at this time.
    (71680)

  • Multiple Partitions/ Windows 7 / Boot Camp Assistant

    Hello All,
    I scoured the post here and in the Snow Leopard forum and gathered a lot of good info regarding partitions and Boot Camp.
    I am planning to divide a 500GB drive on a MacBook Pro into 5 partitions, one of which I plan to install Windows 7 Professional (32-bit). The 5 partitions I want/need are:
    10.6.3 #1
    10.6.3 #2 (for testing and experimenting or maybe my old 10.5.8 setup)
    Media
    Archive
    Windows 7
    I understand that Boot Camp Assistant will only allow me to setup a Boot Camp partition on a drive that has NOT been previously partitioned. Therefore I plan to use Disk Utility and iPartition....
    I have come up with two possible methods to achieve my goal and wanted to see if any of you have any input as to whether of not I am setting myself for a big bag of hurt or not...
    Method One:
    Use Disk Utility to divide the drive into 3 partitions:
    120GB for 10.6.3
    325GB that I will partition later into 3 drives
    55GB Windows 7 (MS-DOS (FAT))
    (This will make the Windows 7 partition 4, which will satisfy the limitation of Windows only seeing 4 partitions.)
    Install Windows and then use iPartition to resize and divide the 325GB partition into the 3 that I need/want. (Being careful that nothing I do in iPartition moves or changes the Windows 7 partition.)
    Method 2:
    Use Disk Utility to divide the drive into 5 partitions:
    120GB -- 10.6.3
    120GB -- 10.5.8 (or whatever)
    55GB -- Windows 7 (MS-DOS (FAT))
    100GB -- Media
    RemainingGB -- Archive
    This will still make the Windows 7 partition #4 or lower.
    I have tried both way and have not had any problem installing Windows 7 but wanted to see if anyone had an strong feelings against this approach.
    Any thoughts or suggestions??
    Thanks
    John

    Hey, from having spent some time trying to partition many partitions on macbooks, here are some thoughts:
    - Not sure if the boot camp assistant will let you go that interesting...
    - Were you thinking about using refit to select partitions on boot? I can vouch that it works well, but keep in mind that the MBR that it creates can only support 4 partitions as you noticed.. in practice i've only been able to create 2 dos/ntfs partitions that you can use to boot windows off.
    My drive setup is as follows:
    - 1 420gb partition for osx and data (since bootcamp 3 has read support for the apple file system, i keep my media etc on this partition to keep apple app's happy and use read access from windows).
    - 1 40gb partition for windows.
    - 1 40gb partition for windows data (so you can reinstall windows if you need to and keep your games/standalone apps somewhere without having to reinstall).
    How i go about this is:
    1. Boot into your mac with the osx install/restore dvd.
    2. Run diskutils.
    3. Create your partition structure as needed. (i'm not sure if you can preserve your osx partition when creating new fat partitions, i think resizing works ok, but i always delete the partition structure and start fresh).
    Its important under this step to create your dos partitions here and format them as fat32. I found it a real hassle/impossible to tell your osx about dos partitions later if you create them in a different way later. Without too much effort, osx doesn't seem to like logical dos partitions.
    4. Reinstall osx if you want/need.
    5. Boot into osx and install refit.
    6. Reboot with the windows cd in, and from refit, run your windows installer.
    Also important, while you install windows, chose one of the dos partitions, and format it to ntfs, but dont add/delete partitions from windows installer. In my experience, as soon as you let the windows built in partition tool touch the partition table on a mac, you've lost your mac partition. No refit, no mac selection, straight to windows. ie, start again. If you simply format a fat32 drive created via disk util.. all is fine.
    After all is done, when you boot back into osx, your windows partitions will be available (though read only if ntfs). Your osx partitions should also be available in windows.
    I've tried using a partition tool in windows with some success (easus partition manager i think) but when i added new partitions via this, i couldn't/gave up getting those partitions visible in osx..
    Getting windows and osx partitions to play nicely in both operating systems is a quite fun and long adventure if you want more than 2 partitions As mentioned earlier, how i run is my bulk storage is on the osx partition, keeps apple apps happy and read access via windows works better than the other way around.
    Another handy trick is you can backup your windows partition with a mac utility called winclone. If you've gotten into the habit of keeping images of clean, activated windows installs for a quick restore its great. I've tested myself on a windows 7 install and it works well (save that the boot entry somehow shows up as windows vista business on restore, i had to get in with bcdedit to fix it).

  • Install Windows on a multiple partitioned HD

    This is me:
    MBP  Retina late 2013
    Mac OS X 10.9.4
    So I want to install Windows on my Mac, the problem is that I already have it partitioned with Mavericks and certain beta software, so i can't use bootcamp because the disc is already partitioned. I don't want to delete the beta software, install Windows via bootcamp and then partition again the disc for the beta since it is widely known that the bootcamp partition stops working. So this is what I did: partition my HD in 3, one for Mavericks, one for the beta software and the last for Windows (with ExFAT format). I already re-installed the beta software and lastly I am going to install Windows without bootcamp (for the reasons I've already mentioned). I already have prepared the bootable USB with the ISO image and the drivers and I plan to reboot, press alt, select the USB and install Windows normally in the designated partition (which is now empty), and lastly install the drivers..
    This is my HD
    And this is the output from terminal:
    I have covered in red the name because it seems I can't post the name of this beta software, but i know you know which software I'm talking about.
    So, any suggestions? I really do need running both my Mac partitions and a Windows partition, any advise, warning, suggestion would be greatly appreciated? Do you have a better idea? I really don't think that what I am about to do is going to ruin my computer, but is there anything I should know before doing this? Thank you a lot!

    Regarding "Thanks for your answers, but is it possible at all to install windows on a partition of an external drive?"
    You could:
    1.  format your external drive "Mac" and install a bootable version of OSX on the external drive.
    2.  remove the external drive's HD and install it in your Mac (assuming it is 2.5" -- if 3.5", you'll have to have leave it outside the machine tethered to the SATA connector of the laptop).
    3.  boot the machine and install a BootCamp partition and Windows on the external (now effectively, "internal") HD.
    4.  put the drives back in their original locations.
    5.  boot the machine, use VM software to "see" the BootCamp partition on the external drive.

  • How do I move a partition using Windows 7?

    I have a relatively new computer that runs on Windows 7 (W7).  This is my first experience with a Windows OS newer than XP.  On systems running XP and older operating systems I was in the habit of using OEM tools for partition management. 
    This particularly included Partition Magic and GParted.  I have a strong preference for partitioning the hard drive into multiple partitions in order to separate the software, from the user data, and the temporary storage files.  I'm also in the
    habit of running more than one operating system partition.  This would include both different operating systems as well as as different instances of the same operating system.
    It looks to me like W7 includes more and possibly better partition management software than XP and earlier versions of Windows.  One of the fundamental tasks is the need to move partitions around on a drive.  Partition management software typically
    has resizing capability.  I'm accustomed to using such tools where you can either reduce or enlarge the size of the partition.  The parameters that you need to supply include the amount of free space that you want to end up with both before and after
    an existing partition.  It looks like the W7 tools only allow you to specify the size that want when the operation is complete.  They do NOT seem to allow you to precisely specify where the resulting partition ends up being located.  It sort
    of sounds like the resulting partition is always going to start at the same location, which means that these tools don't let you relocate the partition.  If so that is most unfortunate and represents a serious deficiency.
    Is there something I'm missing?  In that, is it possible to move partitions?  If W7 cannot do it are there recommended OEM tools with such capability?  In that, is there a substitute for Partition Magic?

    Hi,
    In Windows 7, you can use Disk Management to locate your disk partition. In addition, you can also use Diskpart command in CMD console to allocate the partition.
    Please refer to the conents of the link below for more details:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415
    Roger Lu
    TechNet Community Support

  • Is it possible to resize a mac partition from windows?

    Here's what's going on. I originally wanted to use Disk Utility to do this, which is clearly the easy way to do things, but my computer is so slow that Disk Utility immediately becomes unresponsive upon wanting to resize -any- partition. The windows side works fine though, it isn't slow as crap. Is there a way to resize the mac partition from windows (HFS+)? Any possible way? Even crazy ones? I'm open to suggestions.
    Oh yeah, and in case you want to know...my Mac Mini just randomly started getting really, really slow, so slow in fact, that now my old iMac from 1999 is faster (it doesn't even have ANY RAM!). I tried resetting the PRAM/NVRAM, multiple times, booting into safe mode takes forever, but I left it for awhile and it finished. Almost worked, the finder showed up quicker than usual, but then it reverted back to it's slow self again once I opened Disk Utility. I tried booting into single user mode and typing /sbin/fsck -fy, and it's so slow, that it couldn't even do that! It got stuck at checking libraries or something, for hours, and i could type things in still, but it wouldn't recognize any commands (ie fsk - fy). I also cannot replace the RAM because it is an older mac mini and those things are hard as f*** to repair, trust me, i've tried. The weirdest part of all of this has to be that this is the computer that we DON'T download many apps onto, so it most likely isn't bloatware, adware, a virus or something else. We download most stuff to our MacBook, and go to the sketchy websites on it as well (it really should be the other way around, the mac mini would be around 3x less expensive to replace, it's just that it's the family computer). And that's always slow, but this surpassed it (btw, the laptop is a year or so older). I do not have the installation disk.
    Can someone help? Mainly about the first thing...please. The second thing is hopeless, I will need to get a new computer pretty soon, and these macs don't last as long as they used to I guess, we'd most likely get a quality Windows PC to replace it, this has been a disappointment. I'm just trying to get a little more life out of it with Linux, maybe a year or two. That's what i've done with my old iMac. Runs GREAT. Especially for a 13 year old computer. The thing is, my folks don't want me to completely eliminate the mac partition even though it's virtually unusuable.

    I'm not really understanding what the end goal was. But in case anyone else comes across the thread, neither the built-in Windows volume resizing utility nor any 3rd party Windows resizing utility should be used to resize either the Windows partition or the Mac OS partition. Invariably they all manipulate the NTFS volume in such a way that the secondary GPT is corrupt, the primary GPT is rendered invalid, and only correctly alter the MBR. It's a recipe for data loss.
    Conversely, while Disk Utility can resize a Mac OS volume, it cannot resize an NTFS volume. With Lion and Mountain Lion, upon using Boot Camp Assistant there are already four partitions: EFI System, Mac OS, Recovery HD, and Windows. There is no more room for a fifth partition in the MBR partition scheme, and if you try to add one, Disk Utility will apparently let you and render Windows unbootable (because Disk Utility adds the fifth partition to the GPT, but can't add it to the MBR, and instead removes the hybrid MBR needed for Windows support and replaces it with a PMBR.)
    So in effect this is not to be done except with 3rd party utilities.

  • Installing Lion clean on hard drive with multiple partitions

    I have a spring 2008 24" iMac running Snow Leopard.
    I am about to put a new 2TB hard drive in it and after I do that I want to do a clean install of Lion on it.
    I do not want to upgrade my Snow Leopard install to Lion. I will keep it on my back up drive as a fallback incase of serious workflow incompatiblities with the new OS.
    For my workflow I create and use multiple partitions (Mac OS,  Windows and multiple HFS+ for data) on my hard drive and I have seen that Lion creates it's own hidden recovery partition as well for the recovery functionality.
    My questions are:
    1) Will I have issues running Lion on a partition on a hard drive with multiple partitions that have different file systems?
    2) If I install Lion into one of these partitions will it create it's recovery partition within the space of the partition it is being installed into?
    3) I will be creating a clean install by downloading Lion using the App Store and then burning an installer DVD using instructions I found elsewhere and then using that to do the install on the new drive. Is that the best route to take?
    All my current data I will have on a backup external hard drive and after I complete the Lion install on the new larger drive I will manually reinstall all my software and move my data back from my backup drive to the new drive one partition at a time except of course for OS partition. I keep all my real user data outside of that partition anyway.

    I believe this article answers most of your questions.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
    or possibly
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4649
    You will most likely run into the error message that "Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk" if you have multiple partitions set up, especially if they were not set up using Bootcamp and/or have serveral different file systems.
    You can confirm that the Recovery Partition will not be installed by checking Disk Utility for your current partition map scheme.
    This is most definitely not the end of the world as it is quite easy to create an external Recovery disk.
    1) No, you shouldn't have issues running Lion, but Recovery HD will not be created.
    2) No, and in your case it doesn't sound like it will be installed on your internal drive at all.
    3) Yes. If you begin with an empty partition, then install Lion that would be considered a clean install.
    Hope that helps.
    Autumn

  • Backup to AirDisk with Multiple Partitions Using Time Machine?

    Hello All,
    I've seen some discussion on the net that suggests it is possible to have one USB drive with multiple partitions connected to an Airport Extreme so that Time Machine can be used to back up several machines to different partitions of that drive. I've got the drive partitioned and attached to the AE. I can see the partitions through Finder but Time Machine does not see anything. Can anyone clarify for me what I need to do in order for TM to see those partitions?
    Thanks in advance for your assistance.

    Thanks so much for the reference! Merely reformatting the partitions as indicated in the link did the trick. I did not need to use the command line call to get the drives to appear. A key first step after partitioning seems to be opening a Finder window, clicking on the Airport Express shared volume and then clicking on each partition you want to be able to access. This seems to register each partition. Only then are the partitions available to Time Machine.

  • Multiple partitions on the shuffle?

    Hey, I was thinking about this... could it be done with the shuffle? on a Windows platform?

    Hi Kahlil, your thinkings and idea is good. But multiple partitions on the iPod shuffle is not yet itroduced by Apple. However you have the option to use multiple iPods in a computer. (Ref. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432)

  • Create Boot camp partition on multiple partitions disk without reformatting

    Hi everybody,
    I am trying to install Windows 7 on a multiple partitions 1TB disk.
    Currently I have 2 partitons:
    300GB - OS X Lion
    700GB - Data
    I have read some tips and advices on how to install windows on multiple partitons disks - most of them are invasive (backing up to a removable drive and then reformatting). However, I haven’t found conclusive answer (hence my posting here):
    I’m wondering does anybody know in any way - is it possible to do this more painlelssly - to divide second partition (or maybe first) and use that one as a bootcamp target?
    Or am I stuck with reformatting to a single partition and then installing from scratch?
    Thank you.

    No. To use Boot Camp Assistant your drive must start with a single volume encompassing the entire drive - one partition. BCA will then create a second partition for Windows and modify the bootloader so you can select which volume to use for startup - OS X or Windows. BCA can also remove the Windows volume and restore the drive to its original state - single OS X partition.
    If you have more than one partition already then BCA cannot modify it. If you have a drive configured with BCA and subsequently add a third partition then BCA is no longer able to manage the drive, and you may no longer be able to boot Windows because of changes made to the bootloader.
    So, yes, you are stuck with "reformatting to a single partition and then installing from scratch."
    Your alternative is to create however many partitions you want. Install Windows on one of them. Download rEFIt to replace the standard bootloader so you can select between Windows and OS X (or any other OSes you install.)

  • Selecting data from Multiple Partitions in a single select stmt.

    Hi all,
    My Database is very large & my tables are partitioned.
    My question is:
    1) If my data is spread across multiple partitions, is there any way to select data from multiple partitions in a single query?
    If we dont mention partition name also it works fine, but perofmance wise it will be very slow. (Using EXPLAIN PLAN)
    (Note:I dont want to make use of Union concept, i want to do it in a single select statement)
    For ex:
    qry1.sql:
    select empno from emp_trans partition (P012000)
    This above query(qry1.sql) will work fine.
    qry2.sql:
    select empno from emp_trans partition (P012000,P022000)
    The above query(qry2.sql) will return will return the following error:
    ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
    If anybody has any solution for this, pls mail me immediately.
    Thanks in advance
    bye
    null

    All my queries are dynamically generated. All my tables are also indexed partition wise based on date field. My question is, if i want to mention multiple partition names at the time of generating my query(select), then with parformance will be good. I have refered some books, inthat what they say is to use UNION concept, i dont want to use that, instead i want in a single select statement.
    Thaks for ur reply
    Bye
    null

  • Factory recovery partition on windows 8 in Asus X551CALaptop

    I purchased Asus x551CA notebook on 22nd Feb 2014. After about 45 days I formated hard disk partition
    on which Activated Windows 8 operating systme was installed.I formatted an repartitioned HDD. 
    And I installed and uninstalled windows8 and windows 8.1 90 days enterprise evaluation edition. Because of 
    these link to factory recovery partition is broken. 
    I have created system image disks which are working to restore system. I forgot how I created these disks. May be 
    I did control panel>recovery>file history>windows 7 file recovery. So these disks should be System Image Backup.
    I think these are not OEM recovery disks. When I insert these disks during reset and refresh I get a message 
    that "Media you inserted is not valid". And I am able to create system image on second partition of hard disk of
    my laptop.I have also got product key of windows 8 by a program jellybean keyfinder.
    To restore from discs created by me. I insert a repair disc then I go to UEFI settings. Then I change boot preferences to 
    boot from DVD. Then I go to Restore form images. Then computer asks me to insert my discs no from 1 to 4. One after the other. Then computer restore to windows 8. It looks alike as it was factory made.
    -When I try to create a recovery drive by going to control panel> Recovery >create a recovery drive 
    Recovery drive dialog box appears but with grayed check box of "copy the recovery partition from PC 
    to the recovery drive". Please tell me how can it come with not grayed dialog box so that I can copy 
    recovery partition to USB pen drive? When notebook was new this check box was not grayed and I was able to 
    copy recovery partition on USB pen drive.
    -Since I cannot copy recovery partition to USB therefore I also cannot reset and refresh windows 8 on 
    the basis of USB. It was working when notebook was new. 
    -And reset or refresh also not working on the basis of hidden recovery partition. How can it will start
    working? It was working when notebook was new.
    -I have tried diskpart command do make hidden recovery partition visible. But it becomes invisible
    after restart. I used following command
    1. Command Prompt Run as administer.
    2. diskpart
    3. list disk
    4. select disk 0
    5. list partition 
    6. select partition 6
    7. assign letter z
    by these commands hidden recovery partition becomes visible and again when I restart laptop it becomes invisible.
    And I am not able to do anything with recovery partition E.G. copy the recovery partition to USB 
    When I created a system image using the following command I became able to refresh my PC. May be it was refreshing 
    on the basis of newly created image.
    recimg /createimage D:\IMAGE81
    recimg /setcurrent D:\IMAGE81
    But it is also not working this time and it gives a message "Drive on which windows is installed is locked unlock it".
    May because I installe AVG antivirus it locked the drive.
    I also used REAgentC command 
    reagentc /setreimage /path F:\Recovery\WindowsRE\ /target C:\Windows /bootkey 4300
    Maybe I executed above command once again I used D: instead of F: 
    And I was able to refresh PC but I was not able to Reset. And I was not able to copy recovery partition on USB 
    by going to control panel> Recovery >create a recovery drive.
    Recovery drive dialog box appears but with grayed check box of "copy the recovery partition from PC 
    to the recovery drive".
    ((I am giving images of computer management in first_image no partition was created it was in factory made state. And 
    in second_Image I created an extra disk partition which is present on disk this time.)) I cannot give images because
    of my account is not varified.
    So I am giving output of diskpart command to understand disk partitions.
    C:\>diskpart
    DISKPART> list disk
    Disk ###    Status        Size      Free     Dyn     Gpt
    Disk 0      Online        465 GB    1024 KB           *
    DISKPART> list volume
    Volume ###  Ltr   Label               Fs       Type           Size    Status          Info
    Volume 0        E                                      DVD-ROM     0 B       No Media
    Volume 1        C     OS                  NTFS   Partition    186 GB   Healthy      Boot
    Volume 2        D     DATA              NTFS   Partition    130 GB   Healthy  
    Volume 3        F     DOWNLOADS  NTFS   Partition    128 GB   Healthy
    Volume 4               SYSTEM          FAT32  Partition   100 MB   Healthy      System
    Volume 5               Recovery        NTFS   Partition    900 MB   Healthy      Hidden
    Volume 6               Restore          NTFS   Partition     20 GB    Healthy      Hidden
    in the beginnig instead of D: (130 GB) and F:(128 GB) there was only one partition D:(258 GB) 130+128 GB.
    Please tell me answers of following quesions:-
    1. Tell me how to regain the link to factory recovery drive.
    2. Please tell me how can I refresh and reset PC on the basis of Hidden Factory Recovery Partition. And how can I copy Hidden Factory Recovery Partition on USB and DVDs. I have 16GB USB pen drive and a DVD writer. So I can use these two storage media
    only and except these I have 500GB HDD on my laptop.
    4. I want to know that Factory recovery partition is useful or not. Should I delete it.
    3. I have DVDs as I said above. On the basis of these I can reinstall windows 8. When I created these discs windows 8 was present on laptop. Currently windows 8.1 is present on laptop. Please tell me how can I create my own hidden recovery partition for
    windows 8. I have upgraded to windows 8.1. So please tell me can I create my own hidden recovey partition for windows 8.1.
    5. Can I download contents of factory recovery partition from internet.
    6. Should I go to shopkeeper. He repairs computers as well. Probably he will manage for me to get Recovery partition discs. In this case these DVDs may be different from my DVDs as I mentioned above. Maybe only thing I get from these discs that I will
    able to reset and refresh computer. 
    7. Microsoft shoult create a program that can re-establish link to factory recovery partition. And this program should be able to create new hidden recovery partition as well. As I have upgraded to windows 8.1. So I think I should have a new hidden recovery partition
    for Windows 8.1. I think I can above thing my other way. If I create new set of DVDs by going to control panel>recovery>   file history>System Image Backup. It will create discs for windows 8.1. And I will able to restore system to windows
    8.1 by these discs. And for windows 8 I have already discs. But these discs will only work by changing boot options(by choosing UEFI) and image recovery. And reset and refresh functions will not work then in such situation factory recovery partition
    will become useless. Then such situation I should delete factory recovery partition as it is useless. 
    8. At beginnign I also tried AI recovery burner. After trying it for 2-3 days I came to know that AI recovery burner is not for windows 8. There should be a tutorial for these thing so that people like me not waste their time. 

    I used a software named UNDELETE on my hidden recovery partition to recover it. I get some files by this software. Important thing is that I got a 2.84 GB file named 00eebc9d.rb in dir D:\recovered1\Files Detected by their Signatures\Unknown Application\.rb.
    This file may be useful. Please suggest me how can I use these files to reset and refresh my OS. I used some dir commands as follows to get list of these files:
    dir /s >f:\list.txt
    dir /s /a:s >f:\list2.txt
    Some files were system files so these file were not shown by first dir command. So I used second dir command.
    Output of dir /s >f:\list.txt
     Volume in drive D is DATA
     Volume Serial Number is 9A82-D42B
     Directory of D:\recovered1
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          $Extend
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          Files Detected by their Signatures
    29-07-2014  19:06    <DIR>          Recovery
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          System Volume Information
                   0 File(s)              0 bytes
     Directory of D:\recovered1\$Extend
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          .
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          ..
    29-07-2014  19:08    <DIR>          $RmMetadata
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