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