[ltp] T30 on-disk recovery

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Call up IBM support and request the recovery CD's.  Thats what I did for
my T23.  I then blew away that 'hidden' partition and with partition magic
had a field day cutting my disk up.
norm

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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