Stephen Mirowski <spmirowski@xxxxxxx> writes: > As far as I recall, the hidden partitions are just that. A data drive > without a letter > assigned in Windows. If you went into Administrative Tools / Disk > Management, > you probably could assign it a letter and access the files. I would > guess it's the > first primary partition of the HDD. I would guess just installing the > boot loader > to the MBR just the same if it wasn't there would be okay, just don't > delete that > partition or use it for Linux FS. There was also a bit of funny business with an ~8Megabyte gap between the normal and recovery partitions. I don't know if they were playing funny games with some sneaky out-of-partition data being stored there or if they were simply being sloppy. When I re-sized the partitions with "gpartd" I appended the mystery 8megs to the end of the linux partition. > I have installed OSs w/ leaving the hidden partition on my IBM lapper > before, but > I never had a reason to use the stuff on that drive, so if any > negative effects occurred, > I am unaware of. (After awhile I blew that thing away so I have have > more space > for me =) ) > > Hopefully others here have some thoughts on this. The HP/Compaq laptops have an official way to burn a 2 dvd recovery set from the on-disk data. In theory that partition isn't needed any more once one makes the dvd's. (Well, at least until the dvd's age and become unreadable.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ Direct SIP URL Dialing: http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/phonedirectory.html
