[ubuntu-uk] Using Clonezilla to image thinkpad hard drive before installing Ubuntu

[Simon Greenwood]

On 8 June 2012 17:05, kpb <kpb at sohcahtoa.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:58:05 +0100
> Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > >
> > I've used Clonezilla and it works fine on most machines. Realistically
> you
> > could just leave the restore partition on the disk as it boots Windows to
> > do the restore process.
> >
> > s/
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> > "TBA are particularly glib"
>
> That was fast chaps, thanks
>
> I intend to have Ubuntu only, i.e. not dual booting.
>
> Leaving the 21 GB restore partition is no hassle, I have difficulty using
> more than about 5Gb for data, but my understanding is no thinkvantage
> because of Grub, so no restore from hard drive?
>
>
You should be able to set up the Thinkvantage partition in Grub. As far as
I know it's just a stripped down version of Windows and it's possible that
Ubuntu will actually ask you if you want to keep it when it has installed,
I seem to remember that with a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge I bought last year.
Certainly take a backup though as I'm not sure without looking.

Simon

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