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

[Jiang Qian]

Except that at least in some system, recovery cd wipe out the whole 
disk where recovery partition have the good sense to give one an option 
to install on the first primary partition in the disk, which only 
affect windows if you keep it as first primary partition.
And the ability to fix windows without breaking linux partition is 
valuable for me.
Jiang
> IMHO the recovery partition is a waste of space and totally useless.
> Burn the recovery CDs immediately when you get the new machine in case
> you ever sell it and want to re-image XP on it, and then disable the
> secure setting for the PreDesktop Environment in the BIOS so your
> partition manager can overwrite it and then use the space for other
> things.  It is kind of a waste to have 3+GB sitting there idle on your
> hard disk because you >might> one day want to run the recovery and wipe
> your entire HD, especially when you can just burn the recovery set on a
> bunch of $0.19 CDs.
> 
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