Hi Robert, On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Robert Smits <bob@rsmits.ca> wrote:
I just backed everyhing up to a usb drive, and fixed the hd in the laptop by reinstalling xp from the Lenovo repair disks. This created just an NTFS drive and one 5 GB partition where it stored everything for a future reinstall. Then I could use opensuse gparted to shrink my Windows drive to 25 GB, create a 149 GB extended partition and create /, /home, and swap partions in that.
Yeah I'm stuck with that now, I have some valuable data on Linux partitions which I cannot boot now, so I'm just waiting till the end of the week (i.e. payroll ;-) ) to go and buy an external usb hard drive. My hope is that then I'll be able to boot with Knoppix, backup all my data on my hard drive, and try to do a fresh partitioning and reinstall of everything. Side question, did you get the Lenovo repair disks online, or you got them with the purchase? (I had only recovery partition which I was "smart" enough to get rid of it fairly quickly...). I still can go on their web site and look for all the software, but it brings bunch of stuff, and I don't really want to go and read each of them to understand if I need it or not. Sergey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org