[ltp] IBM T42 Dual boot

[Mark W. Jeanmougin]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Aaron Mulder wrote:
> 	The alternative is to preserve the hidden IBM disk partition (or
> order rescue CD's from IBM) and use the normal restore routine to recreate
> the OS complete with drivers and apps and all.  Then you don't need to
> back anything up (well, except maybe your own data :).  The down side to
> this is that your XP partition needs to be somewhat larger to accomodate
> it (8GB or so IIRC), and the hidden partition takes a few GB itself.

Granted: I've never run XP on my T42.  I just called IBM and they happily
shipped me a copy of the restore CD's.  All eight of them.  For no extra
charge.  I took the disk space back and haven't regretted it!

In fact, I received my T42 on a Monday and get everything reformatted
before I left on a 10 day business trip on Wednesday evening, or something
like that.  IIRC, IBM even made sure I had my CD's before I left.  I'm not 
sure it was /quite/ that fast, but I do know that they did a very good job 
taking care of me.

Great Keyboards!  Great Screen!  Great Customer Support!  Go IBM!

MJ