[ltp] Vendor Diagnostics Partition---Can I wipe it out?

[jaime johnson]

I did the same with my T60. Created the recovery
discs, then deleted the extra partition, left XP, then
put Feisty x86 on the rest. Worked great until ATI
broke suspend AGAIN in their crappy drivers. But
that's another issue. The rescue partition doesn't
offer much that a decent linux rescue cd can't do. 

--- Owen Heisler <owenh000@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007.08.30 23:27, Jeffrey Franc-Law wrote:
> > I need to keep XP running, just for
> warrenty/hardware configuration
> > issues.  Can i wipe out the Vendor Diagnostic
> partition ( i would then
> > reformat into a linux partition)??
> 
> I created recovery DVDs and also a rescue DVD, both
> from the same utility in
> Windows, before wiping everything including that
> extra partition.  The rescue
> DVD is bootable and works just like the ThinkVantage
> button does with the
> partition available.  I'm assuming the recovery DVDs
> would work too, but I
> have no plans for making the attempt.  The rescue
> DVD does hardware testing.
> 
> Yours has XP and mine had Vista (no XP option); that
> might make a difference.
> (I was surprised how _slow_ Vista ran.  Debian runs
> much better.)
> 



       
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