Thinkpad Saga Continues

[John covici]

I had one of these and I just resized the partition, so I kept the
Windows installl,  they have a hidden partition which can be used to
restore to factory settings.

on Thursday 04/12/2007 Beth Hatch(bhatch200 at comcast.net) wrote
 > Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues
 > Hi Sean and all,
 > 
 > That's a really good question!<smile>  Yes, Fedora did notice my 
 > Windows  partition.  The problem was that the way that Lenovo made the  
 > partitions, according
 > to my Linux instructor, meant that we had to break  the existing 
 > partitions before installing Linux and then fix grub to  recognize what 
 > we had done.
 > The computer was broken into one 30  gigabyte partition and another 90 
 > GB partition.  Since there wasn't  enough room on the smaller partition, 
 > we had
 > to use the bigger one in  order to put Linux on one 45 GB partition and 
 > Windows on the other 45 GB  partion we then made. this meant that we had 
 > to temporarily
 > remove  Windows to build the new partitions.  Then when I tried to run 
 > the XP installer, either the newer hardware on the Thinkpad wasn't 
 > recognized, and also, Windows wouldn't even recognize that I had a Linux 
 > partition at all.  I really don't know why we  couldn't find another way 
 > to do this other than using a utility to  re-partition
 > the disk before installing. I'm not knowledgeable enough to  know if we 
 > could have done it better.<smile> but my instructor said we  had to 
 > breakt the
 > big partition in half so that Windows had half and  Linux had half.  
 > That part confused me a little because I didn't  understand why he 
 > couldn't break
 > up the partition right there and then,  and save my Windows 
 > installation,but he said no, so we started by  breaking up the big 
 > partition with the Fedora
 > installer and then  reinstalling Windows.  Here is where things got 
 > weird and now we're  rebuilding the system.  If nothing else, it's a 
 > learning experience.<smile>
 > 
 > 
 > Beth
 > 
 > 
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