[TriLUG] New Thinkpad T23!

[Chris Merrill]

Tom Bryan wrote:
> I just bought an IBM T23 thinkpad.  It came with two primary partitions:
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> I was thinking that I could somehow use dd (from knoppix or tomsrtbt) and 
> stream the partition table and the /dev/hda2 data over my network to my 
> workstation which has plenty of disk space.  Does that sound sane?  Is there 
> an easier way?

Yup.  Call IBM and ask them for a recovery CD.  They sent me one
for my T23 for free, when I asked for it.  The CD will allow you
to do a full restoration of Windows...it might have even restored
the recover partition (I don't remember - I would have deleted it,
anyway).

HTH,
Chris



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