[SWLUG] Accessing hard drive partitions

[P. G. Richardson]

Rhys,

What have you tried as far as trying to access it. On my old IBM A22m 
Thinkpad, I have a similar setup. I was able to just mount it as a fat 
partition and copy the data off. I also dd'ed the partition itself to 
preserve everything.

Have you already installed linux onto the machine yet? If so try 
mounting the partition.

Regards

Paul
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Rhys Sage wrote:
> I'm working with a HP a705w which seems to have a very
> interesting partition. It's got a windows recovery
> partition of 5gb. Rather than provide the user with an
> XP recovery/reinstallation disk, the bios allows
> reinstallation from the secondary partition. Thus far
> I've been unable to access the data on the secondary
> partition. Any ideas? I'd like to be able to write the
> 700mb of the secondary partition to CD so that I can
> format that and use it for Linux. 
> 
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