[ALUG] "Hidden partitions"

[Adam Bower]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:36:38AM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
> 
> My very modern Thinkpad still does it!

I'm sure that you are referring to the thinkvantage recovery/diagnostics
partition. This is just a bunch of apps to reformat the disk and
reinstall windows, you can run diagnostics from it and change the
bios settings. You don't need this partition like you did with some of
the early stuff that had the actual bios on disk. Indeed if the bios had
been on the disk when I got this laptop (and X32) i'd had have been in
real trouble as the entire disk was blank and I had to get recovery cd's
from ibm. The actual recovery space is 4.6 Gigs and 98% full, in some
ways i'd like to ditch it to save disk space but at the same time I
figure having the diagnostics tools to hand might save me time if the
laptop ever needs repairing.

Adam
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