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    How to set-up dual booting with Recovery intact..

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by kisetsu17, May 26, 2009.

  1. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    Hi all.

    I posted just recently a question on whether or not I could upgrade my Lenovo's HDD. Well now my dad decided to just grab an external drive and just use the 120GB harddrive, but he does want to set-up dualbooting with it, with Vista Basic (default) and XP Pro. My question: In my experience with dual booting, installing a second OS messes up the MBR that makes the recovery buttons and thus the recovery partition itself inaccessible.. Has anybody managed to dual-boot and at the same time retain the Lenovo Care button functionality? And can you tell me how to do that? Any help, or even pointing in the direction to look, would be appreciated. :D
     
    kisetsu17, May 26, 2009
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