IBM thinkpad 760EL doesn't boot

[William Ball]

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Cydny Fire Eisner wrote:

> 
> > PartitionMagic (by PowerQuest) is an IBM recommended utility for
> resizing and
> > defining partitions on your hard disk.
> 
> I highly recommend Ranish Partition Manager, which is a DOS freeware 
> & includes source code.  You can get it at the following URL.
> http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
> 
> I used it to recover from a nasty bootsector virus on my dual boot 
> desktop & have used it on my Thinkpad too.  You can resize partitions 
> &, more importantly, can save a copy of your MBR to disk.  I've 
> reinstalled the MBR on both my desktop & TP several times.  Partition 
> Manager fits on a floppy & I now have a recovery floppy with Partition 
> Manager & a good copy of my MBR for both systems.
> 
> If anyone knows of something like this for Linux, I'd love to know about it.

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/diskdrake/

it can (according to page): 

  create partitions 
  delete partitions 
  change type of partition 
  format partitions 
  assign a mount point ((21/07/99) propose a list of
  classic mount points and verify the mount point is valid) 
  mount partitions 
  resize fat partitions 
  resize partitions  
  clear partition table 
  auto allocation (usefull for install) 
  write fstab 

hth

> 
> Good luck with your TP Amalio.
> 
> Regards,
> Cydny
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> Cydny Fire Eisner 
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