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

[Jiang Qian]

What choice did it give when you do restoration? Did it say at some 
step "restore to first partition" or "restore to the whole disk"? or it 
just go ahead and restore to the ntfs partition?

Peter and people out there, is there any evidence to tell one way or 
other whether recovery cds try to wipe the whole system out instead of 
allowing to restore to first(ntfs) partition? This is important because 
if recovery cds indeed want to destroy linux it is a good rationale to 
keep them, otherwise we can use them and destroy the recovery 
partition. Maybe things are different between different set of recovery 
cds? Then we should make a table on thinkwiki to address this.

In fact the thinkwiki page on recovery cds does not seems to address 
how to actually keep recovery partition working for those of us whose 
family members may insist using linux. Maybe we should add this to it.

Is there anyone who used resdore cds for T43 recently? Does it allow 
non-destructive restore?
Thanks indeed.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:29:54AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 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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