[ltp] Partitioning - how to keep IBM recovery partition active?

[James Knott]

Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> I know of one difference between the functionality of the Recovery Partition 
> and the Recovery CDs - the Recovery Partition will only wipe the first 
> partition to restore Windows - the Recovery CDs will wipe the entire disk, 
> restoring both Windows and the on-disk Recovery Partition - thus back to your 
> system's exact factory defaults.

I recently used the CD provided by IBM and it didn't touch my Linux
partitions.  It only used the NTFS partion, where XP was installed.  I
only had to reinstall GRUB, to make Linux bootable again.