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    Deleting hidden partition on R61

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by burea1124, Jul 16, 2008.

  1. burea1124

    burea1124 Newbie

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    Hi,

    According to kind advice from Arkit3kt and other users,
    seems like there is Gparted and also going to Disk management and deleting
    IBM_service partition there in order to delete the ugly hidden partition that takes up 5G and shows on boot-up.

    Has anyone tried this? Does simply deleting make the ugly bootup go away and also clears up space instantly? I don't want to delete it and find I can't boot up correctly or something like that. I do have the recovery cd set though.

    Thank you very much.
     
    burea1124, Jul 16, 2008
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  2. Arki

    Arki Super Moderator

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    The ThinkPad splash screen will still be there after you delete the hidden partition. Deleting it won't harm anything if you have the recovery discs made (which you do).

    What is the operating system?
     
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    burea1124 Newbie

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    windows xp SP2
    so there's no way to delete the part that goes Press F11 to go into Recovery?
     
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    I'm not sure if I have that option anymore, but I do still have that ThinkPad splash screen, which AFAIK is needed to enter your BIOS.
     
    Arki, Jul 16, 2008
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