[ltp] restoring the first partitiong (c: - /dev/sda2) using ibm system restore

[nescivi]

Hi,

On Wednesday 09 April 2008 05:47:04 Micha wrote:
> I went to restore system to factory settings under the ibm rescue and
> restore or however it's called and a few screens later I chose to restore
> only the c: drive. It said that it is preparing the disk (wiped grub while
> it was at it) and some time later told me that it couldn't restore the
> system (no reason why). The same thing worked some time ago when I wanted
> to reintall windows before I removed it, so I'm guessing that it either
> looks for a proper partition, partition label, partition type, ntfs file
> system or windows. Anyone knows how I can make it restore just the windows
> partition without killing my linux installation by formatting the whole
> drive (which if I recall correctly didn't work at the time either)

You can use a partition editor to make the partition in question a FAT32 or 
NTFS one, without touching the other partitions.
There are some live cd's that have the program to do it.
I have used this one for similar reasons (resizing NTFS, and partitioning of 
the remainder before installing Linux).

http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

then, you should be able to get a set of windows cd's from IBM/Lenovo to 
restore your Windows installation (they have to do this, esp. if for example 
you need to reinstall your harddrive because you replaced it or 
something...).
I'm not sure whether the rescue partition will do the trick.

sincerely,
Marije