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Hello everyone,

This is my first post here. I bought a brand new Lenovo 3000 N 100 Series Laptop.

It is coming with a 80 GB, 72 GB C DRIVE and around 6 GB of IBM RECOVERY Partition. As soon as i activated windows, i burned the driver and operating system onto cds.

As i want to divide C into two parts, i partitioned C DRIVE, into two parts, 30 to 50 and i have already formatted the 6 GB of IBM RECOVERY Partition.

The thing is that, when i try to install the operation system from the recovery cd that i have made, it installs everything perfectly, but the HDD becomes 70 GB one part and 6 GB of IBM Recovery Partition again.

How can i partition it to 30 to 50 and install my system files only to 30 GB from the Recovery CD ?

Could you advise guys ?

Thank you.

NETGUYTR wrote:Hello everyone,

This is my first post here. I bought a brand new Lenovo 3000 N 100 Series Laptop.

It is coming with a 80 GB, 72 GB C DRIVE and around 6 GB of IBM RECOVERY Partition. As soon as i activated windows, i burned the driver and operating system onto cds.

As i want to divide C into two parts, i partitioned C DRIVE, into two parts, 30 to 50 and i have already formatted the 6 GB of IBM RECOVERY Partition.

The thing is that, when i try to install the operation system from the recovery cd that i have made, it installs everything perfectly, but the HDD becomes 70 GB one part and 6 GB of IBM Recovery Partition again.

How can i partition it to 30 to 50 and install my system files only to 30 GB from the Recovery CD ?

Could you advise guys ?

Thank you.

after you get your system working with one 70gb parition try installing partition magic (or other equivalent softwere) and then partitioning your drive without formating it.

also try searching around the forum for parition magic
here is one example:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... tion+magic

Partition Magic really does magic. I did it..
I guess, there is no way other to do this with the computer tools itself, we would need extra partitioning tools for it.

Thanks again.

I used Acronis Disk Director on my friends C100 Laptop

Acronis disk director .. works so better

either acronis product will work just fine..

true image or disk director..

the problem with partition magic is symantec..
they bought itand killed the company that made it (i forget their name!)..

symantec is, and has been, a company that buys a product and lets it slide..
i don't know of any product (norton, ghost, et al) that has been as good after as before..

IMO forget poor partition magic and drive image..

acronis is the one for now..
at least until symantec buys acronis and lets THAT product wither away..

and, unless you really need that recovery partition space for data, i would leave it there..
at least until you really need the space..

happy computing and welcome to the forum..

I would strongly recommend Acronis as well. It ranks in my Essential System and Utility Software List!

BillMorrow wrote:
happy computing and welcome to the forum..

Thank you Bill. This is so much kind of you.
Thanks for the info too.

BillMorrow wrote:at least until symantec buys acronis and lets THAT product wither away..

EMC Retrospect still exists.

Although Acronis is my first choice, I'd probably switch to Retrospect if symantec ever bought Acronis.

Hi, I Have a Lenovo 300 N100, and recently I installed the Windows Vista RC1 i receive from microsoft, I left the recovery partition intact, but when i start the computer and press the Lenovo care buton, the recovery software doesn't start, instead appers and screen whit several options to enter the BIOS, repair and Recovery the System, etc, but even when I press F11 for diagnose and Recovery the recovery software doesn't start.
in the Disk Manager of Windows the Recovery Partition appears as an EISA Configuration Partition.

How can I reactivate the Boot from the recovery Partition?

Thanks