New owner of a t43p

[OMsaaf]

Hi everyone,

After browsing many sites and forums (mainly this one) I set my mind on buying a T43p.
I could not believe my eyes when I had it. It is a real little jewel.

I have playing around with it, and found that the applications bundled by IBM are quite handy.

Nevertheless, I was wondering if I could disable or uninstall some of them without hindering the use of the laptop.

Have any of you, for example, disabled the recovery system and deleted the hidden partition ?
Have you deleted the 386 folder to gain some space.

Any suggestions would be higly appreciated

Regards

Omar

[tfflivemb2]

You could always create your rescue and recovery CDs, so that if you run into problems, you will have a perfect back up with the CDs.

As for the individual software, you could uninstall them with the Software Installer program, or the new one: System Updater. This will give you the ability to reinstall at a later point, as well.

[davidspalding]

Welcome to the forums, and congrats on your purchase - you're joining a niche crowd of people who demand excellence in our laptops.

If you haven't already, make the recovery CDs. You can actually put the first on a CD-R(W), and the rest can go on a second DVD-R(W).

Also, run Software Installer to ensure you have latest drivers, utilities etc. They're updated regularly.

Finally ... there have been 2-3 recent threads on just this same question. Searching the forums, and reading the FAQ, before posting a question can save you time.

[Roy_W]

Hi Omar,

Yes I have deleted the R & R partition on both of my machines. The R & R partition is OK in principal but pretty much useless should the Hard Disk crash, on top of that you lose 5Go !

For backups and recovery I prefer Acronis.

Cheers Roy

[christopher_wolf]

Hi Omar,

Yes I have deleted the R & R partition on both of my machines. The R & R partition is OK in principal but pretty much useless should the Hard Disk crash, on top of that you lose 5Go !

For backups and recovery I prefer Acronis.

Cheers Roy

If something makes the hard drive undergo a severe crash, then neither the Predesktop area nor the RnR disk set will help out. The situations where an on-drive recover system wouldn't be as useful as the RnR set are very rare.