[ltp] Vendor Diagnostics Partition---Can I wipe it out?

[Jeffrey Franc-Law]

During the installation of Suse10.2 on an X60, I beat the windows
partition into a corner using acronis disk director (the suse
partitioner would not allow me to shrink the windows partition as small
as I wanted).  I have been left  with a partition called "vendor
diagnostics."  I believe from the thinkpad manual, that this partition
is the windows install media---i guess it is too expensive to give me a
dvd, and preferable for me to just use a bunch of hard drive space.

I need to keep XP running, just for warrenty/hardware configuration
issues.  Can i wipe out the Vendor Diagnostic partition ( i would then
reformat into a linux partition)??

ciao,
jfl


Jeffrey Michael Franc-Law, MD, CCFP.EM, D Sport Med, EMDM
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta
Disaster Plan Coordinator, Dept of Emergency Med, University of Alberta
Email: jfl@disastermed.ca
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