[ltp] Partially killed my TP: Quick question, hopefully someone has a quick answer...

[Norman Levin]

Pam Huntley wrote:
>> The recovery process will (b) completely repartition your hard drive
>> and reformat it to windows (or whatever your preload was).  It does,
>> however, give you the courtesy of warning you about this, oh, about
>> 15 times (not that I've sat there and pressed the Y button much,
>> nooooooo.... ). 
>> 
>> There might be some ways around it, but it'd take me a while to find
>> out for sure, and it sounds like you want to get right on this.
>> 
>> If I were you, I'd back up my Linux partition beyond a shadow of a
>> doubt before I do anything else.  dd is your friend....
>> 
>> Pam
>> 
Pam, the recovery CD with the T23 also scare the hell out of you, but
ONLY touches the first primary.  Didn't touch my D disk or any of my
linux partitions.
norm


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