Vista Install Deleting Recovery Partition

[spongers]

Hello All!

First time poster here.
I just installed Windows Vista Enterprise (MSDN Subscription) 32 bit onto my T60p and now I can not get into the recovery partition!! In disk manager in XP before the install the partition showed as 15% free space left (of 5GB), and after Vista install, 100% free space of the same 5GB. And when I push the blue ThinkVantage button during startup, nothing happens!! So it seems Vista deleted what was in the partition, but not the partition itself!

Any one else run into this problem yet?

This stinks! I have the recovery cd's (to restore both the partition and windows xp) but I would of course prefer to use the hard drive partition!

Thanks in advance!

[GomJabbar]

To quote from a previous post of mine. This worked for me on my T42:
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You can use the following to rewrite the master boot record. I used this before with a beta version of Vista.

Rescue and Recovery - Recovery repair diskette

Boot the floppy or CD and choose replace the MBR (repair didn't work for me), and when the screen comes up, choose Option 1 for newer versions of Rescue and Recovery. I used this diskette after an install of Vista damaged the MBR to access the service partition on my XP hard drive (with the factory preload, updates and added software).

[rvacha]

If you use a boot-time disk utility to delete the EISA partition you will find that Vista no longer boots. To fix this simply insert your Vista install disk and boot off of it. During the install the installer will determine that the boot file is damaged and will automaticaly repair it and then exit without actually reinstalling Vista. Take the Vista disk out and boot as normal. At some stage of this process Vista automatically extends its partition to use up the newly available free space (very cool and unexpected). No need to fire up Disk Management to get the space back

I used the freebie Super Fdisk by PTDD. Install the EXE (you can install on Vista) and go to its folder under Program Files. There will be a utility that can automatically create a bootable floppy with Super Fdisk on it. Info on its use is and links to the download can be found here:

http://www.ptdd.com/manual2.htm