AW: [ltp] imb predesktop area

Petr Simon linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:31:48 +0800


Thanks for the help. It really formats only the first partition. I had 
little problem with grub, though, had to remove it  and only then the 
recovery would be able to finish.
Cheers
Petr

Meidinger Chris wrote:

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>The recovery process on my t42p DID wipe the complete drive.
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>>On Friday 19 November 2004 01:46 am, Petr Simon wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>I have messed up my Windows installation, which I use for testing 
>>>pusposes. No I am afraid that recovery proccess will wipe out the 
>>>whole harddisc, i.e. linux and data partitions. So my question is:
>>>1. does the recovery proccess let me keep current partitioning?
>>>2. is it safe to get rid of predesktop area alltogether, 
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>>now (whithout 
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>>>formating the whole harrdisk)?
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>>When I did this, only the first partition was touched by the 
>>restore process.
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>i was familiar with the same: on my old IBM notebooks i used to just shrink
>c:, and any recovery processes would just reformat that. The recovery i
>recently used on my t42p (burned the cd's with the supplied program) wiped
>the drive completly.
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>Cheers,
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>Chris Meidinger
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