I had one of these and I just resized the partition, so I kept the Windows installl, they have a hidden partition which can be used to restore to factory settings. on Thursday 04/12/2007 Beth Hatch(bhatch200 at comcast.net) wrote > Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues > Hi Sean and all, > > That's a really good question!<smile> Yes, Fedora did notice my > Windows partition. The problem was that the way that Lenovo made the > partitions, according > to my Linux instructor, meant that we had to break the existing > partitions before installing Linux and then fix grub to recognize what > we had done. > The computer was broken into one 30 gigabyte partition and another 90 > GB partition. Since there wasn't enough room on the smaller partition, > we had > to use the bigger one in order to put Linux on one 45 GB partition and > Windows on the other 45 GB partion we then made. this meant that we had > to temporarily > remove Windows to build the new partitions. Then when I tried to run > the XP installer, either the newer hardware on the Thinkpad wasn't > recognized, and also, Windows wouldn't even recognize that I had a Linux > partition at all. I really don't know why we couldn't find another way > to do this other than using a utility to re-partition > the disk before installing. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if we > could have done it better.<smile> but my instructor said we had to > breakt the > big partition in half so that Windows had half and Linux had half. > That part confused me a little because I didn't understand why he > couldn't break > up the partition right there and then, and save my Windows > installation,but he said no, so we started by breaking up the big > partition with the Fedora > installer and then reinstalling Windows. Here is where things got > weird and now we're rebuilding the system. If nothing else, it's a > learning experience.<smile> > > > Beth > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
