Alvaro, I've not done anything with HP's but we do a lot with dell systems @ work and they do similar things. When we receive a system re rimage the primary partiions with our image for the university for that system type, loading all the osftware for the university would otherwise take days usually but an image takes about 20 minutes, we leave the image from dell on the hidden partition because when/if the system comes in for a hardware problem, dell won't do jack unless we are using their originally loaded system so we just blow that image back from dell's partition. I'd say as long as you don't change the size of the partition or anything you should be good.
Check your warranty though, you may void your warranty if you change the operating system or partition tables on the machine. One thing you may want to try just to be sure is to go into disk manangement and set the hidden partition visible as a drive letter and then burn that image to a bootable CD (or set of them) which if push really comes to shove you can fdisk, make a partion and put the iamage back on. MAL >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/02 11:25AM >>> Hello everyone: I had a question about a computer I have. It comes with a hidden XP partition used to restore the OS. It is activated by pressing <F10> during boot. I am assuming that it is some kind of boot loader like lilo where you can use it without prompt and press <shift> if you want to have a menu display. My question is, can I safely partition the rest of the drive, not the hidden partition, install linux, and later restore XP? Is the F10 mechanism some type of booloader or is it burned into a chip? I am affraid that if I install lilo or grub I might never get to boot into the hidden partition again. Thanks, Alvaro Zuniga _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
