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

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:29, James Knott wrote:
> I have an R31 and got the CD a few months after I bought the computer.

Mine is a T42, quite recent.

My T21 came with the CDs and they were willing to leave the rest of the dis=
k=20
alone.  With the T42 CDs I made off the Recovery Partition, I believe the=20
behavior is different.

Cheers,
Bret

>
> 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 t=
he
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> >>http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad

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