--- Vaughn Treude wrote: > > D'oh! I'd forgotten about dd, as I usually use rsync for backups. But > I'm still at a loss to know how to configure that recovery partition. > And the Dragon was right, I think, as I came across many Google items > chastising Compaq for doing the recovery partition thing in lieu of the > CD's. But my problem is that this thing _WON'T_ boot without that > recovery partition, for whatever reason, as I've already tried that. (A > couple years back the drive failed, and my sister didn't know at first > that it was still under warranty, so after my disk-cloning attempt > failed, she sent it back to HP, who replaced it. HP's 12-month warranty > was a nice surprise, and their phone service people were helpful, but > otherwise I'm pretty disappointed in them. The WD drives they use > appear to be pretty crappy these days, I'm going to avoid that brand > from now on.) > I used to buy WD, and about every 6 months they would just fail totally and without warning. I started buying maxtor and haven't had one fail yet. They have been replaced as they got too small, but no problems at all. I don't know anything about the recovery partition, so can't help there. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss