[Thinkpad] T42 Recovery Partition

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The only thread I remember is that no one has had any success copying the
hidden partition. By agreement with Microsoft, it cannot be done with
Acronis, Symantec Ghost, and System Commander.

There were people who claimed to have done it, but I question their
veracity.

The best move is to buy the three disc set from Lenovo... Less than $30
including shipping.  But only one copy is allowed for purchase by serial
number for any machine... again a Microsoft requirement.





On 8/5/07, Paul A. Pennington <paulpenn at knology.net> wrote:
>
>     I just got a new (to me) T42.  I'm trying to copy the recovery
> partition
> over from the present 40 GB to a new 60 GB drive.  I know this has been
> discussed here before, but I can't seem to find the thread.
>
>     I have used PowerQuest Drive Image 7 to make a copy of the
> partition.  I
> used Partition Magic 7 to make two FAT32 partitions on the new drive, one
> 6
> GB for the recovery at the end of the drive, and the rest at the
> beginning.
> The T42 BIOS does not seem to recognize that the recovery partition is
> there.  There's no "F11" message on startup, and pressing the blue "Access
> IBM" button gives no options about recovery.  I did enable the bootup
> messages in the BIOS.
>
>     Can anyone direct me to the procedure for getting this to work?
>
>     Paul Pennington
>     Augusta, Georgia
>
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