Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 13:59:09 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: mailings@analogon.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20040925135008.043e0e98@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149> References: <1161.62.225.227.149.1096105586.squirrel@62.225.227.149>
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Hi, At 10:46 25/09/2004, Thomas Beer wrote: >Dear All, > >I consider buying an T41 or T42. What I couldn't check out >on the web, the archive nor in other lists is how to handle >the hidden partition and the existing installation of M$. >For the time being I would like to keep XP and repartition >a 60GB disk. It seems unclear which bootloader c/should be >used and the procedure of installation (generally I'm firm >installing FreeBSD). Any experiences installing FBSD on >a recent T4x with a hidden partition? On my (new) T41, I repartitioned the HDD (AFAIR I booted a FBSD CD and used fdisk). This blows away the WinXP installation which I then restored from the hidden partition (hit the Access IBM key on boot - it doesn't seem to care that the C partition is now smaller but there must be a minimum size). I believe others have used Partition Magic successfully to resize NTFS partitions on these machines. YMMV, of course. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 940 1295
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