Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

At 10:46 25/09/2004, Thomas Beer wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I consider buying an T41 or T42. What I couldn't check out
>on the web, the archive nor in other lists is how to handle
>the hidden partition and the existing installation of M$.
>For the time being I would like to keep XP and repartition
>a 60GB disk. It seems unclear which bootloader c/should be
>used and the procedure of installation (generally I'm firm
>installing FreeBSD). Any experiences installing FBSD on
>a recent T4x with a hidden partition?

On my (new) T41, I repartitioned the HDD (AFAIR I booted a FBSD CD and used 
fdisk). This blows away the WinXP installation which I then restored from 
the hidden partition (hit the Access IBM key on boot - it doesn't seem to 
care that the C partition is now smaller but there must be a minimum size). 
I believe others have used Partition Magic successfully to resize NTFS 
partitions on these machines. YMMV, of course.

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