Move Rescue and recovery to another harddrive

[fghj.]

Is it possible to move everything that is on the rescue and recovery partition to an external harddrive and if i need to install XP with the rescue and recovery just move it back to the computers harddrive and put that partition to the bootlist in GRUB?

I only got a 40gb harddrive on my r52 and i think its a waste of space to have a 4gb rescue and recovery partition on the harddrive

[ashleys]

Personally I would just delete the recovery partition. It was one of the first things I did on my T30.

Rescue and Recovery works perfectly well without it.
For recoverability, backups both full and incremental, should be placed on an external hard drive.

[ryengineer]

Is it possible to move everything that is on the rescue and recovery partition to an external harddrive and if i need to install XP with the rescue and recovery just move it back to the computers harddrive and put that partition to the bootlist in GRUB?...snip

I think you can do that but recovery disks serve the same purpose except they wipe out your drive 1st.

You would need to reenable the F11 functionality once you put back the hidden partition:

Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette.

You would require a floppy disk drive for above package.

[l2karl]

I think you can do that but recovery disks serve the same purpose except they wipe out your drive 1st.

You would need to reenable the F11 functionality once you put back the hidden partition:

Pardon my intrusion into this thread. Am new to a refurb T40 and yesterday let R&R run for the first time and it created a hidden partition that I can't access. With only 40G on this HD, I really would rather back up to an external USB HD I have with 80G of space.

I have Acronis Home 9.0 and wonder if that is a better way to go.

Also, how do you delete R&R created partitions, etc? After I ran it yesterday, I realized that is was really barebones and it required a few restarts for it to do its thing. So I feel a nervous about how it works, etc.

Anyhow, any help much appreciated.

Tks,
Karl

[ryengineer]

snip.....Am new to a refurb T40 and yesterday let R&R run for the first time and it created a hidden partition that I can't access.....

The hidden partition Rescue and Recovery creates is accessible by pressing Blue Access IBM / ThinkVantage button or F11 key during boot time when thinkpad logo screen appears.

The procedure you performed through Rescue and Recovery likely created a backup and not another hidden partition, Rescue and Recovery is a backup solution in Windows and a recovery program in predesktop area (when booted into hidden partition). The hidden partition gives you numerous options such as restoring your thinkpad to out of the box factory state or from a backup, an internet browser to use in case when your computer gets infected with a virus ... etc. etc.

If you still wish to delete the hidden partition then follow the instructions in the following thread:

wiping out the hidden partition under Vista.

If you wish to delete the backups then look under "Advanced" option in R & R in Windows or boot into Safe Mode and look under C:\rrbackups to delete them manually.