[ltp] T30 on-disk recovery

[D. Sen]

You can always call IBM and get a recovery CD (free of charge).

DS

Seth Kulick wrote:
> Hello again all,
> 
> Well, just got the T30 today.  It comes with XP PRO installed, and I was
> expecting there to be a "recovery disk".  Apparently this one is even more
> "advanced", and the recovery info is included on the hard disk, with no
> recovery disk - "The Product Recovery program is in a section of your hard 
> disk drive that is not displayed by Windows Explorer".   Since I want to set it
> up with a dual boot with RH 7.3, this isn't exactly the sort of thing I want 
> to see.  I know people warned me about not overwriting the MBR during the
> Linux install so that a recovery disk can be used, but this looks like
> an additional layer of headache. Anybody have any experience with installing
> Linux with this recovery stuff on the drive?  Hopefully it won't interfere
> with splitting the main partition into two. (and did I ask for space on 
> my hard drive to be taken up with this?)
> 
> I'm tempted to just get a bootleg copy of XP, wipe out the whole thing, and
> start with a fresh install and then setup the dual boot.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> 
> Seth


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