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After using Partition magic to create a new partition for Fedora Core 3, I can't access the IBM recovery partition anymore.

Is this normal behavior?

Is there anyway I can fix it?

EDIT:

I figured out how to access the partition from this site
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-46088

But however, after it loads, the partition crashes with a BSOD.

were you ever able to figure out why the recovery partition boots to a bsod? i'm thinking about loading my t43 with ubuntu and i'd be doing the same thing within the grub conf, but i don't want to blow the partition

also did this fix allow the access IBM key to work again?

prolix21 wrote:were you ever able to figure out why the recovery partition boots to a bsod? i'm thinking about loading my t43 with ubuntu and i'd be doing the same thing within the grub conf, but i don't want to blow the partition

also did this fix allow the access IBM key to work again?

I initially gave up and recovered to Windows.

Recently, I had the urge to try to install Linux again.
This time I resized the NTFS partition and created a EXT3 partition between the NTFS and the IBM Recovery. This still caused a BSOD concerning session manager.

As for the Access IBM issue, I suggest you buy a USB floppy drive and try this

Okay, I'm a Linux newbie, but while reading up on a problem I was having I read that Linux support for the NTFS file system is sketchy. Could that be your problem?

You might want to go to www.thefreecountry.com and check out the Backup section. There is a "RescueCD" that boots from CD (once you set that option in BIOS, of course) into a Linux command line system. It has several utilities on the disk that you can use to make an image of a partition and another to resize partitions, as well as just about anything you'd need to recover from a crash. I haven't figured out how to make a bootable recovery CD yet, but suppose I can just burn the recovery files on the same CD as the boot files. Sure do wish I could pop the CD in, boot the computer from it, then it ask me for a file and disk to recover and then just do it! That's asking to much though. But the partition utility (works similar to Partition Magic) might work better for you. That or format the drive as FAT 32 instead of NTFS...

I've given up on getting the rescue partiton to work.

It doesn't matter now because I "accidently" corrupted the registry. I quickly recovered my last image from IBM's RR and it deleted every partiton except the one I recovered.

I burned a set of recovery discs, so I can fully recover if I truely need to.

That's what I discovered about "rescue disks" also. I'm going to install everything I picked up on a student's laptop then make an image and leave instructions on how to restore it, with the note that everything will be as it was, anything added will be gone.