Uninstalling rescue and recovery

The properties will take a minute or two to add up the space consumed by files on the drive, and then show you the total. I'm not sure what accounts for that 5GB-and-change differential; it looks like I have some more investigating to do! Hi Jon. I decided to downgrade to XP Tablet. Before that, i was very interested to see where my Gb was gone from a total of Gb. I made a clean install and now I plan to regain that 6 Gb from "hidden" partition. I ordered all my thinkpad rescue and recovery cds from www.

In fact, most Thinkvantage software functions with most IBM machines and is free to download. Segue back to initial sentence - allows you to tell the backup how many versions of incremental backups you wish to have - it then reuses the space used by the oldest 'incremental'. Subsequent backups are incremental, only containing changes from the last backup. The new default is 5 incrementals - more than I really need - I only use three.

The other thing to keep in mind is when one or more of the incrementals are deleted you can do it manually from the ADVANCED menu option, the reason it takes a little time, it needs to rebuild the incremental AFTER the one deleted so it contains the composite of both Delta's - that's also how it maintains it's integrity.

At least I know I don't have the need to go back a couple of years and restore a file or two. The symptom is that you try to recover, but the recovery process ends immediately, and the computer tries to boot with GRUB. The problem is that the one part of the disk that Product Recovery version 5. This clever procedure was originally applied to Ubuntu Dapper Drake, and is generalized here.

Added warning: with this method, you cannot hibernate windows and boot anything else. The windows boot loader jumps on resuming windows before asking anything and you can already verify this right now, whatever your current configuration is.

Boot Windows and make product recovery disks. You will see this step repeated throught this wiki for good reason. The recovery disks can refresh your hard disk to its original factory state, getting you out of the trouble you might make in the next step.

Other authors claim that it must not be moved. I did move it, and it works fine. Still, in retrospect I agree that the end of the disk is the best place for your Rescue and Recovery partition.

Push the ThinkVantage button during system boot, and verify that Rescue and Recovery still runs. Reboot into Windows to verify that the partition resize was successful. Begin your Linux installation. After the Linux installation is finished, reboot with a bootable Linux live CD. The "rescue mode" of your Linux installation CD 1 should work fine for this.

Usually you start the rescue mode with the command,. Transfer the grub. When you need Rescue and Recovery, push the ThinkVantage button upon system boot. Since you have touched neither the MBR nor the Rescue and Recovery partition, Rescue and Recovery will work exactly the same as it did before you installed Linux. The partition type is 0x The filesystem used is NTFS. How this is done depends on the specific CPU architecture.

See these sections for the corresponding CPU architectures:. Second, at the conclusion of a successful NOS install, the install should call onie-nos-mode -s. See onie-nos-mode. Other than that, the NOS installer can do whatever is necessary to persistently install the operating system into the hardware; the installer has a lot of flexibility.

Within the running ONIE context, an installer often needs to know various information about the running system. ONIE provides the onie-sysinfo command for this purpose. For details, see onie-sysinfo. How to invoke the install operation depends on the specific CPU architecture. The only thing untouched is ONIE itself. How to invoke the uninstall operation depends on the specific CPU architecture.