Rescue-and-Recovery partition on new Thinkpad

[Mike Kallies]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:46 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
>
> | And if the HD failed does that mean you have no warrenty?  It is
> | clearly nonsense for any company to claim you can't install another OS
> | on a computer.
>
> It is clearly nonsense.  But that doesn't stop them using it as an
> excuse for not supporting you.  I get a lot of nonsense when I phone
> support lines.  For that reason, I mostly don't bother phoning.

When I get a machine like this, I use dd to grab the recovery
partition and the master partition table.  It never hurts.  The
recovery partitions aren't too big either.

You do never know when you want the Windows image, and retail licenses
for Windows are impossibly expensive.

-Mike
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