[mdlug] T61 Thinkpad Recovery Partition

[Michael Rudas]

--- Peter Bart wrote:

    Yes I did think of that but since I can't boot anything despite
> successfully installing openSUSE, and the references here
> <http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-46088.html> describing
> just exactly what I did.
>         There should be some sort of option in the BIOS; yes it's been updated;
> to disable the recovery partition but I haven't seen it. I've been
> through the BIOS so many times I'm going to dream about it. I then found
> this
> <http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Hardware/Clean_Hard_Drive_zero_fill> which promises to wipe a hard drive. That didn't do it either. Which would seem to prove that some partition is still protected?

Repeat question:  Have you tried to re-write the MBR (bootblock)?
With MBRWiz, you can do so even if the drive is hooked up externally
on another PC, or "fdisk /mbr" will do it from a MS-DOS 6/Win98/WinME
boot floppy -- you can get those from http://www.bootdisk.com

~~ Mikey