How to Image Classmate Without Recovery Partition

[EHaskins]

I've tested it, and I've now install all of the manditory updates and Java updates, and everything worked great.

Originally Posted by BrandonD-1528

Edit: Going to duplicate the imaging key on another flash drive and patch it. We have 2 netbooks so testing is an option. I'll report back in a bit.

Originally Posted by kinganu123

Tested and confirmed working on our '10 netbook

Thanks for the feedback.

Originally Posted by BrandonD-1528

It would be recommended to try and remove the partition with a linux netboot or USB boot manually, and expanding the Windows partition, before attempting this method, as modifying the image key is risky.

Originally Posted by PatrickS

You can boot to a linux live CD and manually remove the recovery partition. You can use tools such as Gparted or fdisk.

Yes, that is possible, but I believe this is the simpler method if the classmate has not yet been customized. If significant effort has already been expended, then yes, using GParted or a similar tool may be the correct course of action.

[BrandonD-1528]

This fix is confirmed working by us as well. Removing Open Office will also give some valuable space.

We went from just over 1 GB available to nearly 8.

[EHaskins]

Originally Posted by BrandonD-1528

This fix is confirmed working by us as well. Removing Open Office will also give some valuable space.

We went from just over 1 GB available to nearly 8.

Thanks for the feedback.

[BrandonD-1528]

Here's a bit of an update: This disk space recovery method is now featured in the KOP Control System section at http://www.usfirst.org/frc/kitofparts as of January 11, 2011.

[EHaskins]

Originally Posted by BrandonD-1528

Here's a bit of an update: This disk space recovery method is now featured in the KOP Control System section at http://www.usfirst.org/frc/kitofparts as of January 11, 2011.

Thanks for the info.

Eric

[jason701802]

Tested and confirmed by Team 753. We first tried using gParted, but it gave us an error and we were no longer able to boot. We decided to give this a go, backed up the .bat and .txt files, and re-imaged using these files. We are up and running with lots more space, many thanks.

[kinganu123]

Originally Posted by jason701802

Tested and confirmed by Team 753. We first tried using gParted, but it gave us an error and we were no longer able to boot. We decided to give this a go, backed up the .bat and .txt files, and re-imaged using these files. We are up and running with lots more space, many thanks.

I too tried gParted, and I got the recovery partition to be removed. HOWEVER, I couldn't extend the NTFS partition into the newly unallocated space, rendering this method useless.

[EHaskins]

Originally Posted by kinganu123

I too tried gParted, and I got the recovery partition to be removed. HOWEVER, I couldn't extend the NTFS partition into the newly unallocated space, rendering this method useless.

IIRC, GParted has a move partiton command. It can be used to move a partition to another drive, or like in this case to another location on the same drive. I don't know the name of this command, but most third party partitioning tools should have this functionallity.

Here are the rough steps you will need to do:

• Remove the 5,500mb partition.
• Move the 100mb and ~10gb partition to the start of the drive.
• Expand the ~10gb partition to maximum possible size