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Is is possible to delete the Vista recovery partition from hardisk and free the space?
Hi
Have a look at this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378890
Should be possible. Remember it looks like it is difficult to get full functionality from an alternative Vista installation so you may not want to destroy this partition unless you have a backup and/or HTC release full downloadable drivers.
Recovery partition
I have used BartPE to boot off an external USB DVD Writer.
From within BartPE you can then use Ghost to capture the ENTIRE drive.
The ***Hidden*** restore partition cannot be see by anything, not ghost, not partition magic, not acronis, it simply is not there.
My belief is that this is due to a BIOS restriction and the FN+F3 boot that does allow the restore is either.....
1. A special mode where the bios can see the hidden partition
2. The actual recovery image is on a separate flash area that we can't see.
Either way having the ghost will recover the hard drive.
I have installed both XP and Linux on the Shift and still been able to reboot, press FN+F3 and do a vista re-installation.
This makes me believe the image is on a separate flash device that only the BIOS section can see.
Hope this helps.
Blitz
blitzspear said:
I have used BartPE to boot off an external USB DVD Writer.
From within BartPE you can then use Ghost to capture the ENTIRE drive.
The ***Hidden*** restore partition cannot be see by anything, not ghost, not partition magic, not acronis, it simply is not there.
My belief is that this is due to a BIOS restriction and the FN+F3 boot that does allow the restore is either.....
1. A special mode where the bios can see the hidden partition
2. The actual recovery image is on a separate flash area that we can't see.
Either way having the ghost will recover the hard drive.
I have installed both XP and Linux on the Shift and still been able to reboot, press FN+F3 and do a vista re-installation.
This makes me believe the image is on a separate flash device that only the BIOS section can see.
Hope this helps.
Blitz
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Dude my findings are the same, How did you get XP working did you use the vista drivers? did they work? if not where did you get the drivers from? Please tell as I really could do with a dual boot PC
XP.....
Hi there...
I basically tried installing XP SP2 and then XP Tablet Edition.
Both work great, minus a load of drivers.
You have approximately 800MB RAM free and it flies but you lose all the ability to do touch stuff.
There are drivers i've found out there for the sound/graphics/thumbpad and usb network but others i couldn't find.
As to installing XP it's simple, boot off a USB DVD with XP and just install it, format the entire drive (don't worry it won't see or kill the recovery vista partition if it is a partition, still think it's a separate flash card) and install.
As to the dual booting this is not possible.
I halved the drive using Acronis Disk Suite and whilst it would install, i created two PRIMARY partitions and made the second one bootable.
On restarting i installed XP but then i couldn't get VISTA to boot once i made partition one bootable.
Basically to dual boot XP/VISTA you must install XP first, then install VISTA.
However having investigated this I can find most of the additional software / drivers but the VISTA that is restored is a very optimised installation and just installing VISTA Ultimate or even normal Business may not provide the same experience.
Until we can get access to the RESTORE AREA and get at the image (whatever it may be) I think killing the drive completely to reload VISTA won't be possible.
Our only real hope I think is to get HTC to release XP Drivers (I'm still at a loss to explain why they chose VISTA over XP Tablet Edition). The performance increase with XP over VISTA is quite staggering but the loss of functionality makes it pointless at the moment.
Blitz
Whilst it does provide a much faster overall experience at this time without the driver support it's pointless.
Again Linux is the same, I haven't yet tried installing OSX on it, but that would be even more problematic as Apple don't do drivers for most of the hardware out here that XP / VISTA will detect.
I have resorted to going back to VISTA and removing Origami and a few other bits and pieces and updating to SP1.
I find the whole shift now is much better after installing SP1 and without Origami 2.0 on it.
Hope that helps.
Blitz
installing Windows XP alongside Vista
I've used the method described in this link to install XP on my U810 as a dual-boot alongside the pre-installed Vista.
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html
blitzspear, what devices were not working in XP besides the touchscreen?
Missing drivers
Everything was missing,
had to download VGA driver from intel. but you lose some of the resolutions.
There is a sound driver and a USB Network device available and the mousepad worked.
There's a PCI device missing and no SD/wifi and chipset.
So basically not a lot works.
Regards
Blitz
IIRC the Raon Digital Everun has the same SDIO Wifi component. Maybe you could try its driver?
http://www.raondigital.com/data/WLAN Driver_1_1.zip
WiFI driver for VISTA
Hi, dont You have WiFi SD8686 driver for VISTA, please ?
I reinstaled my Shift to localized Vista and this driver I still miss.
more:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=376600
Hi, i have a s200 i've tried to upgrade do WM6 but now when i power on it get's sutck on imate screen, i've tried the solutions on the forum for this but i can't fix it
Can you help me guys...
IPL:2.09
SPL:2.13.0000
GSM:02.07.20
OS:3.0.0.0
Im running windows vista 64 bit...
Tanks to all
Have you tried to flash the phone on an windows xp machine, the upgrade tools does'nt work properly under Vista 32, and I doubt that they work better under Vista 64
That's my problem i have no way to do it in xp machine, my desktop is vista and my portable pc is vista as well...
There are no software do it in vista 64 bit???????
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That's my problem i have no way to do it in xp machine, my desktop is vista and my portable pc is vista as well...
There are no software do it in vista 64 bit???????
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Not reliably or well...
Hey guys, i'm stuck with an old GSM version of my Artemis and cannot upgrade it...
I've tryed to upgrade using VMWare (running a XP SP3 virtual machine), but when the phone goes to Bootloader mode, the VMWare loose the USB connection... When i switch to Windows Vista, there isn't any device that correspond to my Mobile Phone... Since Vista cannot "see" the phone anymore, the VMware doesn`t "see" it too...
I`ve tryed to run a Bart_pe winxp enveiroment, but I cannot install active_sync on it...
Anyone has come to this problem?? Vista OS stop "seeing" the phone at bootloader mode??
Win 7 (Full "Vista") has the same Problem. When the flashing should start, it loses the connection and fails.
You need a full WinXP on a real PC to do a this.
Hi, i have received an old htc shift with vista business. I've formatted it and i've installed xp pro sp2 from a normal xp installation cd by usb and cd-rom drive.
Well, i've found (on this forum) some drivers but some links do not works. The situation is:
video ok
touch don't works
audio ok
bt don't works
wlan don't works.
After all this i don'understand what is fingerprint and the linux emulation program that is written in some thread on this forum.
Can someone help me?
Thanks, epi.
read this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=436982
Hi
I have a HTC shift, running Windows 8 Release preview. However i would really like to restore it to vista.
But when i have to select if i want to restore (right after startup, where prompted to press either Y og N), the macine just boots to Windows 8.
Is there anyway to restore it back to vista?
Best regards
you need ınstall windows vista business or vista all versıons.dvd or usb boootable flash hdd write rufus .go it.