| Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #1583 |
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"Al Heath" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> |
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Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: OT: Need guidance on 1.2 install |
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Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:29:45 -0500 |
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> Do I understand that repartitioning the T43 after XP has gone NTFS at
> virgin boot means I destroy the XP source files?
No, they should still be there in the hidden recovery partition and F11 can get back to it until you really mess around with stuff. It would be a good idea to also use dfsee to make a 2 cd image of that partition should you need to restore that at some point in the future. As I recall, on previous systems, I have gone thru the steps of putting the images someplace to burn, and thn made such CD sets so I could then "reclaim" that hard disk space knowing that if really needed to, I could wipe out something an restore the image. I think the last time I did a recovery like that I went all the way back to a creating just primary C, some free space, and the recovery partition. I don't recall if I had to actually allocate something into the free space to keep C from expanding to the full disk again, but could have had to. I guess in my case since I basically run XP in a VPC session and had to have an installable non restricted product anyway, I didn't care so much about a recovery partition rebuilding C:. Also, my T42 came with a bunch of extra useless stuff.
Al H