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    clean install and setting up dual boot with Lenovo's "Recovery" tool

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Frankeinstein, Apr 22, 2010.

  1. Frankeinstein

    Frankeinstein Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just got a new Thinkpad T510 and I was planning to install Ubuntu beside Windows 7 in dual boot. At first, I was planning to reformat the hard drive, create the partitions I need, reinstall Windows cleanly with the setting I want and then install Ubuntu.
    It’s the first computer that I buy where the Windows CD is not provided and I though that the Recovery partition, once burned on DVD, would work pretty much like the Windows CDs I always been used to. However, I discovered that it doesn’t really allow me to do anything like that. :mad:

    Instead, I accepted to give up the reformatting and clean install business, and created a partition from Windows to install linux on it. However, my T510 came with 3 partitions:
    C: with Windows7
    Q: the recovery partition
    and another one called SYSTEM_DRV
    and they are all “primary partitions”. Any additional partitions I create are “logical drives”. I red the operating systems need to be on primary partitions.

    I know that I’m pretty much a newbie with this, but could anyone give so some suggestions to get around this?
     
    Frankeinstein, Apr 22, 2010
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