Re: Lenovo A61e and recovert partition

On Apr 2, 2:36 am, seani <ingl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a new Lenovo A61e with XP Pro, and I want to set it up dual
boot with Mint 4.0 KDE. The standard partitioning tool that runs as a
part of the desktop install is unable to resize / repartition on the
fly, and I guess this is as a result of a hidden 5Gb recovery
partition - marked as type EISA.

The disk manager in XP can display this partition, but that's it - the
usual options to remove / initialise etc. are missing.

Does anyone have any pointers for managing this? I'd prefer to retain
the XP install and recovery partition if possible, but I'm not certain
how to safely proceed.

fdisk might do it.
What does fdisk -l show you?
Did you try just using fdisk to remove that 5Gb partition?
Boot the Mint CD and bring up a terminal and use fdisk
fdisk -l [show existing partitions]
fdisk /dev/hda [start fdisk on primary IDE drive]
p [print partitions]
t [change partition type]
d [delete a partition]
m [list commands - help]
.

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