Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in news:h2c083$9fi$1
@news.motzarella.org:

> On this computer, the partition contains the Vista recovery environment;
> more or less the same one you can get into by booting from the Vista
> DVD.
>
> The environment on the Toshiba has been enhanced with some Toshiba
> extensions. It doesn't, however, fill the 1.46GB partition. There is a
> "Restore" function to fully restore the main Vista partition .... but
> the restore function is just a way of starting/accessing the recovery
> DVD that Toshiba shipped with the laptop.


As I suggested back on June 23, and could have been confirmed with a simple
5 minute experiment:

"Given the size, my guess is it may be a FAT32 or NTFS partition that boots
to a WinPE-based repair or recovery environment (although the actual
recovery image or content may reside on CD or DVD)."