I am about to be supplied with a Thinkpad r50e and I am sure that it will arrive with one monster C: thing that will fill the drive and that the drive will appear to be smaller than the label on it says due to the "restore" space that is hidden.
I was able to do some work on a desktop drive a while back from an IBM desktop box and I had no luck working out how to get to the missing space to back it up. Mrs Google got lots of hits but if there was a signal in there I didn't hear it due to all the noise. I won't have lots of research time on the new laptop but I'd love to be in a position to put XP-pro back there if there is a warranty issue or if I get a bigger drive from another source so that I have plenty of room for OpenBSD as well as XP. Does anybody here know how the space is hidden and how to unhide/rehide it so as to do what I want? I had thought that I could dd the whole drive but that didn't work last time so I live in hope that there is a drive genius lurking here. Thanks, Rod/ In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain The Word of Rod. Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.
