Re: Disk partition on X20/W2k

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 00:09:20 EST

WHO is that strange man behind the curtain..?? :-)

YIKES..
are you serious..??
the recovery is on the HDD..!!
whats a service partition anyway..??

----- Original Message -----
From: "James H. E. Maugham" <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com>
To: "Bill Morrow" <penzance_at_gate.net>; "Vaidy Sunderam"
<sunderam_at_cs.utk.edu>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:48 PM
Subject: RE: Disk partition on X20/W2k

> Bill Morrow [mailto:penzance_at_gate.net] wrote:
>
> > i think you can remove this partition..
>
> > so a strange but empty (it IS empty, right?) partition is not a big
> > surprise.. :-)
>
> Don't listen to that strange man behind the curtain!!!
>
> That's the hidden "Service Partition" on the X20 that contains the
recovery
> program for your system in lieu of a recovery CD.
>
> Leave it alone!
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>
>

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