The question was about whether the recovery media, if partitioned, would be entirely wiped out. I eventually decided to go for it, thinking i could pull the drive if I saw the partition table disappear, then try to recover the partitions.
Happily, it did stick to just the partition I pointed it to. On Feb 14, 2012 10:28 AM, "Paul A. Pennington" <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex asked about formatting while making recovery media. > > Why not just try it and see? If it formats the entire drive, you can > always go back and play with the partitioning later. > > Just don't boot the system with the USB drive in place: unpleasant things > happen when two bootable hard drives, both set active, are present at boot. > > Paul Pennington > Augusta, Georgia > > ______________________________**_________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
