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Posted: **Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:19 am**

Hi!
I feel that I would like to reformat and start fresh.
As I do not have access to an external HDD or CD/DVD the IBM Recovery Partition seems like a viable option. However, since I got my x60s I have repartitioned the harddrive and created an linux partition which I want to keep. Will the IBM Recovery completely repartition/reformat all of the harddrive and erase my linux partition? Or will it just touch the default Windows partition?

Thanks in advance!

Posted: **Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:24 am**

To the best of my recollection your Linux partition will be gone once you start recovery by means of the recovery partition.

Gerd

Posted: **Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:37 am**

Thanks man!
Guess I'll have to get hold of an external DVD then.

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IBM Recovery Partition and re-installation?

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