Re: [Thinkpad] (no subject)

There is nothing special about it; you can remove it if you'd like.
When I removed Windows from my ThinkPad I blasted the
recovery partition and never looked back.

--STeve Andre'

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 07:07 pm, Michael Stack wrote:
> Which brings up the related question: assuming recovery disks are at hand
> and Drive Image backups are made regularly, is there any inherent reason to
> retain the recovery partition (in my case, on a T30)? Does anyone have
> experience operating with this partition absent? I'd be happy to get back
> another 5% of my HD.
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Mike
>
> At 04:08 PM 10/21/2003 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote:
> >In <200310210051.h9L0plpR007349@illuminati.stderr.org>, on 10/20/03
> > at 09:04 PM, "BLITZSTEIN-INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES"
> >
> ><truthfinder@comcast.net> typed:
> > >Anyhow, I partitioned the hard-drive using Partition Magic and noticed
> > >that IBM has a hidden area on the drive for a restore. I don't need the
> > >restore feature as I use Ghost to do my back-ups.
> > >
> > >I would like to get rid of the IBM hidden partition without having to
> > >format my drive. Is there anyway to accomplish this?
> >
> >If PM won't do it, dfsee (go to dfsee.com) will do this.
> >
> >
> >--
> > Julian Thomas: jt_at_jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net
> > In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State!
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> > One virus, two virii, three viriii, four viriv ...
> > (Rob Slade) - Nine virix (jt)
>
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