Repartition for HP 3704/3706

Cousin bought an HP 3706, pre-installed Vista Home Basic, only drive C and drive D. The size of drive D is 9 GB, and the size of drive C is 110 GB. No one in the team will put everything in drive C, so that data will be sorted in the future and fault recovery will be extremely inconvenient. So you need to re-partition and think about it several times and find the best partitioning method. However, it should be noted that the DOS version of PQ seems useless. The PQ 8.05 attached to the latest tomato garden does not recognize the HP partition and is displayed as full occupation. The detection shows a serious error. Back up important data to external storage media, such as USB mobile hard disk. This partitioning method restores the C disk to the factory state.

HP recoveryProgramThe boot is a simple Vista, and the hard disk is not locked. You can delete the drive C as you like. Press F11 to start the HP recovery program. In the first dialog box, do not press "Next". Press the alt and D keys on the keyboard to bring up the command line, use diskpart, a command line partition tool provided by Microsoft, to partition, but note that the C disk cannot be less than 30 GB. Otherwise, the data copied from the restored partition is not enough, 3706 at the time of leaving the factory, the C disk occupies about 11 GB.

In this way, you can partition and retain the recovery function of HP. I don't know why XP is not allowed to be installed on this broken HP, and a bunch of bugs with imperfect drivers are so annoying.