[ltp] Partitioning - how to keep IBM recovery partition active?

[James Knott]

I have an R31 and got the CD a few months after I bought the computer.


Jiang Qian wrote:
> Which version of thinkpad you used? And when did you order recovery cd?
> Thanks a lot.
> Jiang
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:05:50AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>>Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
>>>I know of one difference between the functionality of the Recovery Partition 
>>>and the Recovery CDs - the Recovery Partition will only wipe the first 
>>>partition to restore Windows - the Recovery CDs will wipe the entire disk, 
>>>restoring both Windows and the on-disk Recovery Partition - thus back to your 
>>>system's exact factory defaults.
>>I recently used the CD provided by IBM and it didn't touch my Linux
>>partitions.  It only used the NTFS partion, where XP was installed.  I
>>only had to reinstall GRUB, to make Linux bootable again.
>>
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