VirtualLarry
No Lifer
I just recently purchased a new laptop, an HP ze2401xt to be exact. Mobile Sempron 1.8Ghz, DVD burner, etc.. Kinda heavy, but loaded with goodies. Anyway..
It has XP Home (bleh) pre-installed, along with other gizmos. I was wondering - after my Ghost of the pre-installed image finishes, rather than just blow away all of the pre-installed stuff (and take the risk that the 'Recovery' CD isn't really a full image.. maybe it's a DVD, but I can't fit all of the pre-installed stuff onto a single DVD with the "high compression" option in Ghost), what about shrinking the partition down using System/Partition Commander, and then changing the "active" flag and the partition type code to something non-DOS, but otherwise benign? If I ever get rid of the laptop, all I would have to do is undo the process. It would essentially take up 7GB out of my 60GB HD, not too much I think.
Anyone ever do this before?
It has XP Home (bleh) pre-installed, along with other gizmos. I was wondering - after my Ghost of the pre-installed image finishes, rather than just blow away all of the pre-installed stuff (and take the risk that the 'Recovery' CD isn't really a full image.. maybe it's a DVD, but I can't fit all of the pre-installed stuff onto a single DVD with the "high compression" option in Ghost), what about shrinking the partition down using System/Partition Commander, and then changing the "active" flag and the partition type code to something non-DOS, but otherwise benign? If I ever get rid of the laptop, all I would have to do is undo the process. It would essentially take up 7GB out of my 60GB HD, not too much I think.
Anyone ever do this before?
