Re: Dual boot on system with hidden recovery partition
- From: David Bolt <blacklist-me@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:45:01 +0100
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, DC <dcmoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:-
<snip>
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 have a similar situation with my Acer laptop. It has four entries for
the installed OSes in the grub menu, although it can only boot three:
WinXP;
SUSE 10.1;
and openSUSE 10.2.
The fourth is for the rescue partition, but when I've tried to boot
that, it always fails saying that C:\COMMAND.COM can't be found.
However, this probably isn't that much of a problem as, the first time I
started it in Windows, it created a "recovery" DVD.
As luck would have it, I've not yet had to try to recover Windows on it,
mainly because it's almost never used[0], so I don't know for certain
just how well it would work.
Having experienced a similar system on an Advent laptop, I do know that
using the Windows "recovery" DVD is a last-stand option. The only time
I've had to do so on that laptop, it completely wiped everything on the
hard drive, including the "recovery" partition, and reverted it to the
factory condition.
[0] It's usually booted into 10.1, although I do sometimes use 10.2 with
it.
Regards,
David Bolt
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