The recovery partition should be the 2nd partition not the first and it 
should be fat32. The mbr will look for this partition to boot correctly 
if you decide to continue running windows. Make sure if you do you do 
not fdisk the mbr and it must stay present in Grub or LiLo

Paul Dickson wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:09:10 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hello everybody,
>>
>>My sister's HP has been sending out ominous "drive about to fail"
>>messages.  She asked me to help replace her drive.  I did what I
>>normally do:  after adding the new drive, I booted the system in Knoppix
>>to try to do the copy.  The problem was the 5 GB "recovery" partition at
>>the beginning of the disk.  Knoppix could not recognize this.  The same
>>held true for Seagate's setup utility, which boots with DR-DOS (the
>>replacement drive is a Seagate.)  Does anybody know what kind of file
>>system the Evil Empire uses for this partition?  Secondly, is it now
>>safe to use Linux to copy NTFS files?  My version of Knoppix is 3.3 and
>>I've since downloaded 4.0, but I don't want to drive back to my sister's
>>house unprepared.  Is there a good Linux tool to do this?
>>    
>>
>
>On my Dell notebook, I can mount it as vfat (mount figured out the type
>by itself).
>
>	-Paul
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