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− | Also known as the HPA, this is a special area on your harddisk, usually hidden to partitioning tools, that includes all the software and data needed to recover the preloaded state of the ThinkPad.
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− | The PreDesktop area was introduced with the R/T/X 40 series of ThinkPads and is present on the preinstalled harddisks of all ThinkPads shipped by IBM since then.
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− | ==How to remove it==
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− | There's a BIOS setting in my T42p. After disabling the PreDesktop Area, it's possible to remove the partition with standard tools. i.e. fdisk, mkfs, ...
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− | [[Category:R40]] [[Category:R50]] [[Category:R50p]] [[Category:R51]] [[Category:R51p]] [[Category:T40]] [[Category:T40p]] [[Category:T41]] [[Category:T41p]] [[Category:T42]] [[Category:T42p]] [[Category:T43]] [[Category:T43p]] [[Category:X40]] | |