Which might be a clue indeed, Ben: > I suspect it's some sort of recovery partition or BIOS stuff specific to the > machine(s) in question; Compaqs used to have that, and my Dell laptop has > something in a recovery partition that I've never had time to investigate > properly.
In fact I see that "upper end" area on a Toshiba laptop (and the funny thing is that the Linux/Mandrake partition tool does respect it and wouldn't touch it.) Hm. have to "investigate". -hc
