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

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 05:34, Jiang Qian wrote:
> I found the instruction that comes with my recovery CDs and it said the
> recovery cd will remove *all data on all partition*. Do people know for
> sure that recovering from hidden partition allow you to recover only to
> first NTFS partition?

It sounds like you are in a good position to try it as you still have the=20
Recovery Partition on your system?

That's one way to know for your system.  I make a point of restoring my new=
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computers so I know how they work before I start putting anything useful on=
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them.

Cheers,
Bret

> Thanks a lot.
> Jiang
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:46:23AM -0400, Jiang Qian wrote:
> > What choice did it give when you do restoration? Did it say at some
> > step "restore to first partition" or "restore to the whole disk"? or it
> > just go ahead and restore to the ntfs partition?
> >
> > Peter and people out there, is there any evidence to tell one way or
> > other whether recovery cds try to wipe the whole system out instead of
> > allowing to restore to first(ntfs) partition? This is important because
> > if recovery cds indeed want to destroy linux it is a good rationale to
> > keep them, otherwise we can use them and destroy the recovery
> > partition. Maybe things are different between different set of recovery
> > cds? Then we should make a table on thinkwiki to address this.
> >
> > In fact the thinkwiki page on recovery cds does not seems to address
> > how to actually keep recovery partition working for those of us whose
> > family members may insist using linux. Maybe we should add this to it.
> >
> > Is there anyone who used resdore cds for T43 recently? Does it allow
> > non-destructive restore?
> > Thanks indeed.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:29:54AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> > > I have an R31 and got the CD a few months after I bought the computer.
> > >
> > > Jiang Qian wrote:
> > > > 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 wi=
ll
> > > >>> 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.=
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> > > >> I only had to reinstall GRUB, to make Linux bootable again.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>--
> > > >>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > > >>http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> > >
> > > --
> > > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad

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