Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
Does anybody here know how the space is hidden and how to unhide/rehide it so as to do what I want?
On my work Thinkpad R40, it's hidden via a BIOS setting. Hold down either F1 or ESC (I forget which) while powering on the machine to get into BIOS setup, it's somewhere in there.
Once you delete the partition, there's a program you can download from IBM/Lenovo to put it back (some kind of system-backup program for the blue button) but IIRC it's a Windows program (and a ~350mb download). In my case it's only 3gb (out of 18), and since an additional 3gb wouldn't really help my disk space issues, I left it there. In my case it's easier to just swap in another drive for OpenBSD.
If you just want to use the IBM partition to put back a factory XP installation if/when you need it, it should do that out of the box. Like the man on TV says, just press the blue button and follow along.
