On 8 June 2012 17:05, kpb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:58:05 +0100 > Simon Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > I've used Clonezilla and it works fine on most machines. Realistically > you > > could just leave the restore partition on the disk as it boots Windows to > > do the restore process. > > > > s/ > > -- > > Twitter: @sfgreenwood > > "TBA are particularly glib" > > That was fast chaps, thanks > > I intend to have Ubuntu only, i.e. not dual booting. > > Leaving the 21 GB restore partition is no hassle, I have difficulty using > more than about 5Gb for data, but my understanding is no thinkvantage > because of Grub, so no restore from hard drive? > > You should be able to set up the Thinkvantage partition in Grub. As far as I know it's just a stripped down version of Windows and it's possible that Ubuntu will actually ask you if you want to keep it when it has installed, I seem to remember that with a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge I bought last year. Certainly take a backup though as I'm not sure without looking.
Simon -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib"
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