Thinkpad partioning advice. Please help.

[mikesugar]

Couldn't find an answer to this elsewhere on this site.

In the past I've always blown away my thinkpad hard drive an installed the OS clean. Here is how I like my partitions:

C: 30GB NTFS (my core OS and App Drive)
X: 3.99GB FAT (to hold ghost image with OS, drivers, and Apps, fully configured)
Z: all remaining NTFS (to hold files of all kinds)

As soon as I've installed, configured, and updated my OS and core Apps on C: , I Ghost the C: to X: so if C gets hosed it's a 20 minute restore that doesn't disturb Z. I want to keep Z separate so all those files don't bloat the Ghost image. I back up the Z files separately.


I'd like to integrate this approach with the ThinkPad RnR partition.

Can I repartition the drive after initial setup?

Once the drive is partitioned, will RnR still work with the partitions, or would RnR blow away the partitions?

Can I make an RnR-equivalent bootable DVD to reclaim the 10GB RnR partition from the drive?

Can the DVD be made to work without blowing away my user-defined partitions?



Thanks,

Mike