[ltp] Partitioning new laptop

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Quoting Michael Ott <michael@zolnott.de>:
> Hello Lior!
> 
> > i tried to use partition magic to resize the "ibm_preload" partition
> > and to make a new one after it (and before the predesktop area) but it
> > messed up my hd and i had to recover it to the factory settings.
> Try an other application like qtparted
> 
> > another question: are the recovery disks a perfect duplication of the
> > predesktop area?
> I do not think so but i do no know it exactly. I think it is packed.
> 

Much of its content is compressed.  I was just noticing the other day
that Win2k fits on just over half of a CD (330MB, IIRC) while WinXP is
3GB compressed.  That's some feature creep!

Jeffrey