Partition of Spectre XT 13

I just bought my HP spectre XT 13-2004TU with 256GB of solid state drive. I was not able to do any additional partition for my data, as it was already partition with three primary drives and one logical drive. After making several attempts by shrinking the "C" drive, I was not able to assign the drive letter. At last, I solved the partition issue by using Acronis Disk Director 11 home edition.

Yes the shrink utility in W7 is limited, it cannot move data to increase shrink size or deal with other partition issues. Glad you solved it, just used Acronis DD the other day, nice software.

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Have you made the recovery media before? You may have to use that for doing recovery/refreshing. Otherwise order the Recovery USB directly from HP in your region.
Also, what happens when you hard/force shutdown your system by pressing Power button continuously for 3-5 seconds and then again powering it on again for 3-4 times?
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I'm a happy camper after upgrading my HP Spectre XT from win 7 to win 8 (Win 8 upgrade offer). The 128GB SSD disks just makes everything so smooth and fast.
However I am abit annoyed with the Win 7 recovery partition that still uses 20 GB of my total 128GB space.
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You can use Windows builtin Disk Management to delete the partition, or EaseUS software. Both procedures are outlined at EaseUS site:
http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/windows-8-partition-manager/delete-windows-8-partition.htm
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http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/8956-system-image-create-windows-8-a.html
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Hi,
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I wish I had better news to give you on this.
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Hello,
I see your resolved the recovery issue by turning the date back to 2012 in the BIOS.
We will soon have new recovery media available to resolve this.
We will also have a softpaq available that will fix teh Recovery from F11
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ArisaemaDracontium wrote:
I'd like to use the method described in the following link. Can I do this with a partition instead of an external drive?:
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Can I partition my drive without whiping it entirely and then having to restore everything?
Probably. See #3 in Using Disk Utility.
Also, the "Alternative Method" mentions using a disk image. My experience with disk images is limited to those temporary "disks" used when installing new software that are erased when put in the trash or the computer restarts. Is there such thing as a perminent disk image?
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Only one user can access it at a time, so if you use Fast User Switching and one user has it open, others won't be able to use it.
You'll need to put it in each user's Login Items so it will be mounted at login, per the article.
The contents will not be backed-up while it's mounted.
(But, in many cases the iPhoto Library won't be backed-up by Time Machine while the iPhoto app is open, no matter where it is.)

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Hello, I would like to know how to delete the yellow partition named "Other" (in italian "Altro") that appears when I connect all my devices to the laptop. This partition in Ipad comes with 4 Gb that for an instrument of 16 seems a bit too also because it far exceeds anything else. So far not been able to find useful information and is a very common problem. Thank you.

Thank you very much, but it's not so simple. I read somewhere in this same forum that:
I quote: "That large of "other" is corrupt data. Try restoring your phone from backup first, followed by syncing your content back to the phone. If restoring from backup does not fix things, you will have to restore as a new device to get rid of it. There is no way to directly delete it, other than restoring your phone."
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Is the 8GB limit only related to iINSTALLING OSX on these machines (and not RUNNING OSX)?
Will the machine run into problems later if a portion of the OS (i.e., during an update) gets installed outside of the first 8GB of the disk?
One of the log files says that the driver is out of date for the RageproC, and Classic applications that require more than 4MB of VRAM say that I don't have enough VRAM to run, yet the iMac has 6MB of VRAM (2 on MB and 4 in slot as listing by the system profiler) - do I need to (or should I) reinstall the system software (I already tried loading the latest ATI drivers, but it did't help)?
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I believe Duane is correct. Even with Mac OS 9, you can run fine as long as all OS components used during startup are within the first 8GB of space. However, (even with Mac OS 9) as soon as something used during startup ends up beyond that limit, you will get open firmware or a gray screen at startup. The Mac OS X does not allow the installation target to exceed the limit as a preventative measure, not because it won't work at all.
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FYI - On my iMac and 120GB drive, 7.78 GB (as shown in a Finder window) is the precise point where the Mac OS X Installer allows the volume to be the install target. "Precise" to with a few hundred MB's.

Error while creating partition table

Hi frnds i am getting error while i am trying to create a partition table using range
getting error ORA-00906: missing left parenthesis.I used the following statement to create partition table
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(ORDER_NUMBER NUMBER,
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CUST_NUM NUMBER,
TOTAL_PRICE NUMBER,
TOTAL_TAX NUMBER,
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PARTITION SO99Q2 VALUES LESS THAN TO_DATE(‘01-JUL-1999’, ‘DD-MON-YYYY’),
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PARTITION SO00Q1 VALUES LESS THAN TO_DATE(‘01-APR-2000’, ‘DD-MON-YYYY’),
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PARTITION SO00Q3 VALUES LESS THAN TO_DATE(‘01-OCT-2000’, ‘DD-MON-YYYY’),
PARTITION SO00Q4 VALUES LESS THAN TO_DATE(‘01-JAN-2001’, ‘DD-MON-YYYY’)
;

More than one of them. Try this instead:
CREATE TABLE SAMPLE_ORDERS
(ORDER_NUMBER NUMBER,
ORDER_DATE DATE,
CUST_NUM NUMBER,
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TOTAL_TAX NUMBER,
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PARTITION SO00Q3 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('01-OCT-2000', 'DD-MON-YYYY')),
PARTITION SO00Q4 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('01-JAN-2001', 'DD-MON-YYYY')))In the future, if you are having problems, go to Morgan's Library at www.psoug.org.
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