[ltp] R50 under Debian : bios update possible ? + recovery cd's question

[Christoph Singer]

On 13.05.2004 15:10, Didrik Pinte wrote:
> Subsequent question : as I do not have any predesktop area, I asked the
> recory cd's to IBM... It seems that recovery cd's does repartition all
> the disk and not only offer the ability to reinstall XP on specific
> partition. Am I right ?

I recently reinstalled XP from the recovery cd's and was prepared to 
find the whole disk repartitioned - but that wasn't the case. The 
recovery program only reformatted the first partition (Drive C: in 
windows) and didn't touch my Linux partitions (I have a swap partition 
in hda2 and the root partition in hda3).
So I think, if you left hda1 as a FAT32 partition for Windows, the 
recovery program will not touch other partitions (at least it didn't on 
my R40).
But you can't tell the recovery program to install Windows into another 
partition than hda1.

Christoph