Gerry Chilibeck wrote:

>** Reply to note from Mike O'Connor  Mon, 12
Jan 2004 04:22:45 +1000
>
>>Before installing IBM BM, I should have also inserted - from a command  
>>prompt run "LVM /QUERY:ALL" - Note all the partition
information -  
>>especially if there is a hidden IBM "recovery" partition there. 
>>Then run "LVM /NEWMBR:1",   assuming you only have one
HDD in the TP. 
>>Re-delete all partitions, then install IBM BM with LVM, run
"SHUTDOWN"  
>>and restart the installation.
>>
>
>What would this prove Mike?  Here, the BMgr gets installed just fine in the
>first 7mb of the HDD...you can see it in LVM physical view.
>
>Yes, there is a hidden recovery partition.."untouchable by
lvm" on the last 4+gb of this drive.
>  
>

Hi Gerry,

It makes all the difference to the code in the Master Boot Record - if 
you have a look with a Disk editor - eCs 1.0 came with a trial version 
of the Graham Utilities - I don't know whether like me you have GU 2.1 
or possibly the old DOS Norton diskedit.exe, or whether there's only a 
limited life on the free GU-diskedit.exe, but have a good look at the 
hex contents in cyl0-head0-sector1.

Reference the untouchable partition in the last 4GB+ of the drive, this 
will probably be the recovery partition to restore the XP-or whatever 
that was originally on the dive - back the way it was at manufacturing 
time - as a BIOS function probably - judging by the type of BIOS in my 
VAIO Laptop - which hasn't yet seen OS/2-eCS [need bigger drive 
preferably]. 

Using either those tools mentioned or DFSee - you can get an iso image 
from Jan van Wijk of the V6.0 Beta, to burn a bootable CD with all the 
DFSee versions on it, you can [after cloning that partition to somewhere 
else if you really need to reinstal ~XP], then change the partition ID 
and then blow it away.  The master Boot Record needs to have "I13X" in 
location 0x00d5 in the MBR,  IIRC. there may be variations between eCS 
1.0 and 1.1, depending upon FP-level.
HTH

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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