[SWLUG] Windows XP

[Dafydd Harries]

Ar 14/04/2004 am 12:35, ysgrifennodd Steve Anderson:
> Most likely the whole drive is taken up with a single NTFS partition for 
> XP, and, depending on the make of laptop, a hidden 'recovery' partition 
> to stop people from having access to a real, tangible disc for backup 
> which they might pass out among friends. This is the way with modern 
> laptops, sadly.

I think part of it is preventing piracy, but another part of it is
laziness.

I have a Thinkpad that came with a hidden recovery partition. A friend
of mine with a similar model phoned up IBM and they were happy to send
him a CD, no fuss.

The BIOS let me unhide the partition, so I did and got rid of it. I
hardly have a need for a Windows XP backup, and it means 4GiB or so of
extra space on the disk.

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Dafydd