Yes sir, but after staring at it for the bulk of afternoon - I'm not so sure it's possible anymore. I think they somehow embedded it in the windows partition, I can't even access the thing unless windows starts booting. <br>
(don't even get me started, if I start ranting about @#$@#$@# tactics like that, I won't stop.)<br><br>I'm starting to think the path of least resistance is to just shrink the windows part down to close to minimum and ignore it.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jim Ockers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Mike,<br>
<br>
So you want to keep the factory recovery partition on a CD and then
reformat the disk to install Linux on the whole thing? I think those
factory recovery partitions sometimes depend on special support from
the BIOS. Are you sure that your BIOS isn't integrally involved in the
recovery procedure for your system? My point is that maybe to
"recover" the system, the recovery partition has to exist and be right
where it is now; having the files on the CD wouldn't work if the BIOS
is looking on the disk.<br>
<br>
Sorry I'm not more help,<br>
Jim <br>
<br>
Mike Bean wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">Hi. I'm experimenting with nuking my drive completely and
loading linux across the whole thing, but I'm not really sure about
proper technique. I thought I'd ask the mailing list for advice.
Currently I'm experimenting with using clonezilla to image the
partition and mkisofs to .iso the image files. Although, frankly, I'd
appreciate advice if I'm missing something obvious or if there's a
better technique available.<br>
<br>
Bean<br>
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