[ltp] From Jiang: recoverying partition

[Jiang Qian]

Hi All:
I see an discussion about recovery partition. My question is this: as I 
understand I have to use NTLDR as bootloader in order to boot to 
recovery partition at all. Not knowing this I already installed grub on 
MBR and can now only boot to BSOD when trying to boot to recovery 
partition. Is there any way to non-destructively fix this, i.e. to put 
NTLDR back to MBR to dual boot system? I have already had the recovery 
cd. Is there a way to use recovery cd to restore NTLDR into MBR? Or any 
other ways of getting back the option of recovering from hidden partion?

My rationale of restoring recovery partition even when I have CDs is 
the following: as pointed out restoring from recovery CDs one only have 
the option of wiping out the whole disk yet restoring from recovery 
partition one have the capability to restoring to first partition on 
disk, which I kept windows. 

My rationale of having the option of no-destructively restoring windows 
is windows is a good thing around for testing, knowing some problems 
are hardware instead of software. Another significant reason is that my 
wife use windows. If she mess up the windows part I want to be sure to 
be able to fix the windows part without wiping out my linux
environment. 

Thanks a lot!
Jiang