I partitioned the hard disk on my laptop using DOS FDISK. I created a FAT32 partition about 6GB and formatted it. The remainder of the disk was left unpartitioned.
I popped in the Toshiba recovery disk and expected it to load into the small partition I created. Instead, the dang thing re-partitioned and re-formatted the disk into an NTFS partition and ran the Symantec Ghost restore program.
I think I am stuck with having to buy Partition Magic so I can reduce the NTFS partition so I can load GNU/Linux.
The NTFS partition is not well handled by non-Partition Magic re-partitioners. The recovery disk is not a real XP installer so I don't have options for re-installing.
Am I missing something?
IIRC, OEMs are required by Microsoft to provide install media if requested. In fact some laptops come with recovery disks (which behave as you described) as well as a separate drivers and installation disk. You might check again to see if you have another CD, or contact the OEM to see if you can acquire the proper media.
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