Been there, done that, had the partitioning mess up the disk. IIRC, it had to do with AHCI and the version of Partition Magic I was using. One way I fixed it was to switch the disk to compatibility mode in the BIOS. That sometimes worked.
Better solution was to use a different partition manager. I used one of the ones free for home use and it worked fine. Don't recall which one. ________________________________ Robert Rosen > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:35:20 -0500 > From: "David Reid" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Thinkpad] Partition during re-image using Lenovo restore > disks > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <001b01cae640$c61aeff0$5250cf...@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Well, got the new T500 with XP Pro in the other day. Deleted all the > unnecessary junk (ie Trial version of MSO 2007). > > Set out to partition the hard drive (as many, many times in the past, using > Power Quest Partition Magic 8.0 for XP). And PM or something corrupted the > boot record "error: NTLDR is missing" > > Lenovo support says the HDD must be re-imaged and they are sending out the > "restore" or "recovery" disks. > > Question is... is there a point during this restore process where I can > specify my desired partitioning? Lenovo says no, he didn't think so. > Anyone know different? I'm afraid to try Partition Magic again, hate to buy > another product I may only use once/twice. > > Thanks in advance, > > David _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
