[ltp] Laptop dead after trying to backup C drive (sata) using Acronis True Image, help SVP

[Don Perley]

Well.... here's a guess..

I can't believe a new windows machine would come with a FAT32 C 
parition, so let's assume it started out as NTFS.

If parted just resized the C partition to make room for the others and 
DIDN'T resize the file system and/or couldn't do that for NTFS, then 
backing up C to D would write over what is still part of the C file system.

If the hidden partition (/dev/sda1) is the (intact!) recovery partition, 
you have to do whatever F-key-on-boot is needed to access that and 
restore the machine to it's original state.  I don't know, maybe it will 
restore the C: drive to its reduced size partition and leave the others 
alone.

James PEARSON wrote:
 > Hello all,
 >
 > My problem concerns a friend's brand new Asus F3JM (Intel® Core™ 2 Duo
 > T5500). Sorry about posting here but I am a bit desperate.
 > The machine which was new and in its box yesterday
 > is now dead. - no post - no lights when I hit the ON/OFF button -
 > nothing
 >
 > Here's story...
 > this morning I backed up his Windows C drive using Acronis True Image
 > version 8.0 (build 763) CD.
 >
 > Its an older version but Acronis True Image saw the "C" and "D" drives
 > so I started the backup. Yesterday, I had partitioned the hard drive
 > previously using gparted 0.31 in order to make home for linux.