I may be out of line here, but why do you need a recovery program if everything runs fine? And I don't see why partition magic is involved in an OEM recovery system. <div>On 8/18/06, Kevin Zhao <<a href="mailto:klzhao@gmail.com">klzhao@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, I am having problem with some OEM recovery program which find errors in my partitions and refuse to work. I think there is not a big deal as both xp and ubuntu work fine. But things like "partition magic" or "powerquest" do not think so, therefore i can't get recovery. On the other hand I don't want to erase my linux partitions for the recovery procedure as probably only the windows system partition is involved. Therefore I wonder if it is possible to hind those linux partitions, say make them appear as one single partition of type xyz, as long as the windows doesn't touch such type. And after recovery I convert the partition table back to the original state. If this trick works I can cheat those stubborn checking programs under win. Kevin -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Sylvain Girard, Consultant Valoris NV <a href="mailto:sigirard@sopragroup.com">sigirard@sopragroup.com </a> <a href="http://www.valoris.com">www.valoris.com</a> +32486282435