Re: Dual boot on system with hidden recovery partition
- From: meke <^meke04^@ntlworld.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:11:31 GMT
DC wrote:
ray wrote:
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:30:52 +0000, DC wrote:
I have an installation question. Hopefully someone can help me...
I wish to dual boot linux with Windows XP on a Dell laptop.
The laptop has a hidden recovery partition in lieu of recovery CDs.
If I install linux to the extended partition, will writing GRUB
to the MBR preclude me form doing a recovery of Windows XP at a later
date?
The laptop does not have a floppy drive. What are my options?
Thank you.
'hidden' from whom? I believe that the Linux partitioning tools will find
it and act accordingly. Should be no problem. Why not boot the Gparted
Live CD and see?
I have Partition Magic installed. I can see it just fine. Companies
like HP/Compaq and Dell (this is a Dell Latitude laptop) don't supply
recovery CDs with their laptops anymore -- they put a recovery partition
containing the os and software on a hidden partition on the HDD
instead). What I want to know is the correct procedure to follow to
make this a dual boot system while ensuring that my ability to later
recover the Windows XP os from this partition will be unaffected.
I installed 10.2 on my brother-in-law's acer laptop and the installation put
a grub menu item in to boot into the recovery partition.
During the install process, look at what the proposed boot loader config is
going to be set to.
.
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