Interesting topic Stuart, i am interested in this too. I have an LG laptop with the "secret restore" partition for XP. I am now ready to delete Win XP portion of the disk and reclaim that secret partition, so i'm curious to see what responses you get.
vlad On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:56:59 +1100, Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > Firstly merry Xmas to one and all, thanks for your advice over the year > and I hope mine hasn't lead to too many disk reformats! > > I'm about to re-jig my laptop which due to client needs has Linux on one > partion and winXP on another. > > I'm going to back the whole thing up to my server before starting. I was > wondering what the best technique to use is to ensure all partions, boot > thingys and secret 'ibm restore' partions all make successfully. > > I've got a thinkpad X31 if that helps. I'm thinking dd which I have > never used but I'm concerned that on restore of partions 'doze will fail > to boot if I don't get everything - I mean everything backed up in the > correct manner. > > Any thoughts multo appreciato. > > Stu > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
