Comments on: Disable and Remove ThinkPad Hidden Service Partition

By: BTWS

BTWS — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:35:28 +0000

Thanks…

By: BillR

BillR — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:33:44 +0000

On my T61 there is no such command under the ‘Security’ menu in the BIOS. I suggest it is time to update your instructions. Thanks for contributing to the greater knowledge anyway. It seems to have helped other.

By: charles lins

charles lins — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:38:19 +0000

Pessoal,

Tenho um Lenovo 3000 N200 e no momento estou satisfeito, porém o HD faz muito barulho, trabalha o tempo todo e quando ouço música pelo CD e tb faz muito barulho (turbina de avião).

Fora isso, ele é completo, o CARE da Lenovo muito bom.

By: Ruchi

Ruchi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:31:27 +0000

Thanks! I got blue screen of death after installing Xubuntu with WindowsXP. Your post help me disable the recovery partition and dual boot works fine now.

By: Ubuntu su Lenovo (IBM) Thinkpad x60 « Il Pinguino Furioso

Ubuntu su Lenovo (IBM) Thinkpad x60 « Il Pinguino Furioso — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:25 +0000

[...] Maggio 29, 2008 di ilpinguinofurioso Un brevissimo post che spero a possa risultare utile a tutti coloro in procinto di installare una distribuzione Linux Ubuntu su in Lenovo (IBM) Thinkpad x60. Ho appena installato da zero Ubuntu 8.04 e tutto sembra funzionare a meraviglia. Le periferiche hardware sono riconosciute immediatamente compresa scheda wireless e dual core. Per l’installazioni di versioni precedenti di Ubuntu consiglio di dare un’occhiata qui. Personalmente non ho testato né il bluetooth, né il sistema di riconoscimento delle impronte digitali semplicemente perché non utilizzo queste caretteristiche ma dal link già citato non sembrano esserci problemi di sorta. Se avete acquistato il portatile con Windows preinstallato (purtroppo per voi) vi consiglio come prima cosa di creare i ThinkPad recovery CDs (anche per questioni di supporto e garanzia). Se poi volete eliminare la partizione nascosta (che si trova nella maggior parte dei thinkpad) e guadagnare qualche Gb di spazio su hard disk, vi consiglio di dare un’occhiata a questo link. [...]

By: Felipe Camboim

Felipe Camboim — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:24:34 +0000

Hi,

I have a ThinkPad R61, that came with Windows Vista pre-installed and the recorey CDs from Windows XP. Since it was running slowly with Vista, I used the recovery CDs to install Windows XP. Does the recovery CDs erases or overwrites the hidden partion that came from factory? I didn’t make the recovery CDs from Vista.

Thanks,

Felipe.

By: kasandra

kasandra — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:19:24 +0000

hi, my ibm x61s don’t hav the meny you write about…

“In the BIOS setup menu, go to Security, and then set the IBM PreDesktop Area to Disabled”

can you give me another tips?

By: tubby, little, cubby, all stuffed with fluff » Ahh… disk space!

tubby, little, cubby, all stuffed with fluff » Ahh… disk space! — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:40:53 +0000

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By: Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:43:12 +0000

I attempted to remove this hidden partition and performed a clean installation of XP Pro before I read your article here.. This seems to have worked OK as I have regained the 5 Gbtes of the hidden partition. However , on bootup , I still get the DOS-type Thinkpad screen which says “To interupt normal Bootup press the blue Thinkpad button” The laptop then boots normally into XP.
Is it possible to remove this screen at bootup ?
It would seem that I haven’t removed all the IBM installed software or this screen would not appear at bootup !

By: welandi » Blog Archive » Remove Service Partition

welandi » Blog Archive » Remove Service Partition — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:46:22 +0000

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