modified preinstallation?

[wisydude]

Hi,
i have a lenovo 3000 c200 that came a preinstalled xp home sp2 on a hidden partition.
i wrote the content out to a dvd and i have realized that it contains an opera folder. how is it possible? i installed opera, but how can it modify the preinstalled xp on a hidden partition?
thanks

[Marin85]

I´d rather say this is not possible, but you may want to take a look in this post of Johan

Cheers,

Marin

EDIT: link

[beGi]

It came embedded with your hidden partition, and it's coincidence that you use it yourself...

Lenovo uses it for help access and warranty info (or stuff like that) within predesktop area...

[wisydude]

Thanks for the input.
Another question. I have forgotten to make a rescue disk right after purchase and for some reason i can not make it anymore. Probably it is because in the main time i resized and modified partition with gparted. Anyway the system works. I have found in a how to website a way to make install cd using the running system i386 folder. I did so. I have tested the cd in virtualbox and unfortunately it starts up only in safe mode and so far i have not found a clue to solve the problem. In the hidden partition though i have not found any i386 folder so far, because i would like to try to make the process again with that folder. Is there any in the hidden partition?
Andy

[beGi]

Is there any in the hidden partition?

I think not, but I didn't explore hidden partition for some time now...

I don't know how this functions on non-thinkpads, but i could make new restore disks every time i did factory restore...