Installing W7 on T60P, recovery partition ?

[nocture]

Hi all

I installed Windows 7 on my workstation and love it so much i'd like it on my T60P. However, im a little curious - will it ruin the recovery partition / access to that partition in the recovery part @ BIOS? I ask this because on my old thinkpad, when I installed Linux, that Grub thing made the bios unable to access the recovery partition, so i couldn't reinstall from that = driver hell in windows.

Thanks in advance

[Truthfinder]

Howdy:

Not having a answer to your question since this is still a Beta operating system, I would create a partiton of at least 30 gigs, more if you can. I made a 50 gig partiontion since I'm using a 250gig drive. Anyhow, create the partiton using Partition Magic whic is very easy to ulilize. Once you get this taken care of, install Windows 7 on the newly created partiontion which will give you a dual boot system. You can boot into XP if this is what you are now using or you can boot into Win 7.

I have a T-60 and did the above and it's great. However, in the event something goes wrong down the road I can boot into my XP partition and access the Recovery Partition.....

This is a win-win way to do it as far as I'm concerned.

If you would rather install Window 7 only, make sure you have or make a factory recovery to have on had in the event you run into a problem in the future....

Remember, Windows 7 - 7100 is good until March of 2010 at which time you will either go back to you previous system or purchase Win7.

Hope this helped you out.

Kindest Regards, Steve

[vital-analitix]

depends on how you have your hard disk set up. However if my experience with Acronis boot is anything to go by then you may well find that you can no longer boot your recovery partition.

Why no use an external USB hard disk and use a bootable Acronis CD to make a backup? You'll also will need some kind of partiton manager since Acronis will not delete the Windows 7 system boot partition (100 Mb). I use Paragon Hard disk partition manager and that works fine.

Go carefully and expect to loose everything on the hard disk when playing around with any new operating system, Windows 7 included.

vital analitix