[ltp] Keeping parts of the recovery partition?

[Jiang Qian]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:00:16AM +0200, Daniel Skorka wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:56:31PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> > Why not see if there's a utility for making CDs from that partition?
> > Failing that, perhaps the disks are available from Lenovo.  Either way,
> > you can blow away that partition.
> 
> You're right, the first R&R CD seems to contain all tools.
> While not quite what I want, I think I can live with that.
However, note there are people on this list saying a crucial difference 
between R&R CD and recovery partition exists: that if former give you 
only a choice of blowing away the whole hard drive and returning the 
drive to the real factory state, i.e. the state with one FAT windows 
partition(converted to NTFS on first boot) and one R&R partition. All 
your linux partitions will be lost. Yet the R&R partition gives you the 
extra option of installing windows into the first partition of the disk, 
which will likely to preserve the linux partitions for your aside from 
bootloader shenanigans. I did not have a chance to try this yet, but 
that may be something to consider.
Jiang
> 
> Daniel
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