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

[Jiang Qian]

Which version of thinkpad you used? And when did you order recovery cd?
Thanks a lot.
Jiang
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:05:50AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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