[ltp] ibm recovery program with multiple partitions

[Thomas Marquart]

> I am the owner of a R40, and currently I have two partitions on it:
> 18Gig for Windows XP and 17Gig for GNU/Linux.

> I used the ntfs resize tools to resize the ntfs file system when I got
> the laptop. I couldn't make it any smaller because Windows had put
> some files on the 17Gig border.
same was here, on my R40.
(in the meantime I wiped Win completely)

> Now I want to make the Windows partition much smaller. E.g. 3Gig.
>
> Can I first remove the ntfs partition, make a vfat partition of 3Gig
> and use the recovery feature?
>
> Will the recovery feature leave my other partitions alone and will it
> install on the 3Gig partition?

I doubt this will work.
the recovery feature works by having the recovery data hidden somewhere on
the harddisk. You may already have overwritten parts of it. At least in my
case I had to disable the recovery after resizeing to e able to boot.
Even if recovery still works it will _wipe out_ everything and restore the
_entire_ harddisk to its original state - your linux partitions would be
gone, as far as I know.

For more info, see here:
http://tom.uni-hd.de/thinkpad-r40.html
where I summarized my experiences with Debian on the R40.

thomas
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