Q about utilities partion for an Omnibook 6100

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I didn't get the recovery CD when i bought a used Omnibook 6100. Does
anyone know how large the utilities partition should be and the
partition type code so it is recognized?

Thanks
Mike H.

 

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On the seventh day, Michael Hobart wrote...

> I didn't get the recovery CD when i bought a used Omnibook 6100. Does
> anyone know how large the utilities partition should be and the
> partition type code so it is recognized?

the size should be approx. 16-32megs, type is 0x12 (Compaq diagnostics).
There is a howto on HP's ITRC support forums at
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=622765
also helpful:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=623217

HTH

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Thanks, that is what I was looking or

Regards

Mike

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:57:28 +0200, Christian Dürrhauer
<cduerr@geog.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

>On the seventh day, Michael Hobart wrote...
>
>> I didn't get the recovery CD when i bought a used Omnibook 6100. Does
>> anyone know how large the utilities partition should be and the
>> partition type code so it is recognized?
>
>the size should be approx. 16-32megs, type is 0x12 (Compaq diagnostics).
>There is a howto on HP's ITRC support forums at
>http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=622765
>also helpful:
>http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=623217
>
>HTH