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    Just got new T42. Re-partition problems

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by mlsbraves, Jan 4, 2005.

  1. mlsbraves

    mlsbraves Newbie

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    I just recieved my new IBM T42 and I need to install linux on my system. I will also be keeping my Windows OS. I've made backup copies of the rescue disc so I want to get rid of the hidden partition. Thought this would be easy. I inserted the first slackware disc in, Ran Fdisk, deleted the hidden partition, then wrote it. I then tried to boot my windows partition so I could re-size it but was surprised to find there was no O.S. on the system. I went back to Fdisk and checked and for some wierd reason there was random data and partitions. I deleted them and ran the Rescue disc and now I am back to begining.

    The hidden partition is taking up 9 Gigs alone. So I must get rid of it. Can someone suggest a better way of going about this? I was also confused in the startorder of the bios. I have IDE HDD0: H****numbers and IDE HDD1? Whats up with this? I was going to install Lilo but is there already some of wierd bootloader from IBM?
     
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I may not be understanding you correctly, I thought you had to turn off the hidden parition in the BIOS to be able to see. I think it is under Security. When I first got my T41, I put in a Windows boot disk and went in to fdisk. It said the partition was in 100% usage. After I turned off the recovery partition, it said it was 91%. I tried a Windows boot disk and Partition Manager, which usually fixes things that the boot disk can't, and neither could see the hidden partition. You can make a boot cd as well if you don't have a floppy. Works faster than a floppy.

    After I turned off the hidden partition, I just used fdisk to create two partitons. One 5Gb partition for XP and the other for my files. I like to do it this way because if my XP becomes corrupted I can wipe out the boot parition without losing the files on the other side of the parition and I don't re-format the whole drive. Maybe you could do three one for XP, one for Linux and one for your files. Have a look here:

    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=psg1MIGR-55142&loc=en_GB

    Hope this helps.






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