[ltp] IBM Recovery CDs, partitions

[Jiang Qian]

There was a discussion a month ago. Apparently in some model at least=20
the recovery cd attempt to wipe the whole disk and then install the=20
recovery partition whereas recovery partition allows you to recovery to=20
the first hard disk partition. See:
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2005-August/0289=
74.html
and the thread that follows.
http://www.4saad.com/WhatsNew/Fresh_XP_Install/index.htm
In a nutshell be careful the recovery CD might want to wipe your whole=20
disk whereas recovery partition is smarter. Unfortunately you've lost=20
the ability to boot recovery partition so you might want to consider=20
creating your own windows recovery cd now and try it to see whether it=20
works. You might also want to let this list know, should you decide to=20
create your own recovery cd following the link above, how it goes.
Good luck.
Jiang

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 03:25:58PM +0200, Michael Kaiser wrote:
> Hi!
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> I bought a R52 last week. As I intend to have WXPP and Linux on this
> laptop, I decided to play around with some Linux live CDs.
> Unfortunately, I damaged the partition table and thje pre desktop area
> got lost. I ordered the recovery CDs yesterday, but they told me, it
> might take up to 9 day. :-( I don't want to wait that long, so I plan
> to do a "clean" partitioning beforehand and install Linux. Does this
> makes sense? Or will the recovery CDs wipe the harddrive again and my
> Linux will get lost?
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> Any help appreciated.e
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> Thanks,
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> -m.
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