Somewhere on teh intarwebs John Doue wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Barry Watzman wrote:
>>> That is very interesting. [Hold down the zero key while booting; or
>>> press F8]
>>>
>>> I am still inclined to think that the answer is wrong, only because
>>> I still believe that a 1.46GB partition is too small to be a factory
>>> restore partition for Vista, but I will give it a try.
>>
>> I am inclined to agree with you Barry. The "ServiceV001" FAT32 (EISA
>> Configuration) hidden partition in this ThinkPad T60 is 4.54GB. It
>> is an XP Pro preload (with a bunch of licenced time-limited stuff
>> Lenovo are probably paid to include) *and* diagnostics partition.
>
> Guess you meant "has probably been paid to include"!

Heh! Yeah, I tend to abbreviate things I write to newsgroups (unless it's
critical info) and sometimes it doesn't come out exactly as I meant it.

Oh, about the EISA partition on this ThinkPad T60; I believe that it
dynamically re-sizes itself as needed as the software included allows you to
backup not only your current OS 'state' (including patches and service packs
I believe) either to hard disk or to DVD-/+Rs but also offers a secure,
encrypted 'vault' for sensitive information. Currently disk management tells
me that there's 675MB free space on the 4.54GB partition.

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll
be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.