In my experience, the recovery disks recreate the factory image which is not partitioned beyond the hidden recovery partition and the standard factory operating partition. I have completely dumped Partition Magic v8; it causes many problems. The free versions of EASEUS and Paragon guide the process through a helpful GUI and work well. Also free: GParted is linux based but will partition Windows disks; and TestDisk gives low level access and fine control but "with great power comes great responsibility." maxdanger
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Alex Austin <[email protected]>wrote: > The gparted livecd should handle AHCI just fine. > > On Apr 28, 2010 1:15 PM, "Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E]" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 Tri... > > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
