Sony Vaio question

[spool]

Hello all,

I am in the process of restoring a customers Sony's Vaio computer.

I have worked on a number of these computers with Win Xp home on 80G hard drives. Never did a restore. They all have there hard drives configured with two partitions. One partition 15Gs with Fat 32 (C:drive) which has the OS on it, the second partition (D:drive), 65Gs NTFS.

It seems that on the NTFS partition the Restore Points are being saved. I talked to Sony and they told me that's the way the computers are setup at the factory and they will not support the computer if the Fat32 partition is converted to NTFS. They will not give any reason for doing this.

I even gone to Best Buy and checked out other Viao's and they all had the same set up.

These computers are off warranty so support is not an issue.

SOooooo does anyone know why Sony does this? Can I convert to NTFS with out problems? These computers are running out of room on the C:drive partition. I would like to just use the whole 80G hard drive, no partitions. I haven't used the Sony Restoration disks yet so I don't know if there will be a choice to use NTFS on the first partition (C:drive) and just use the whole drive. WIN XP is on the default restoration disk it is not on a different disk so it might put it back to the state it is in now.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.



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[spool]

I think this is a hard one. I posted this question before and can't seem to find any answers to this problem. I have this dilemma very time I get a Sony computer in for repair. This time I need to do a clean restore and I wan't to use the whole 80G hard drive using Sony's recovery disks. No two partitions, no Fat32.

I'm going to move this post to another section of the site.

Thanks, spool.

Don't argue with an idiot, he will bring you down to his level and beat you with his experience.