From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sat Dec 26 1998 - 16:11:14 EST
Mark, et al..
the recovery CD (at least from the 770-1AU would work on "any" HDD..
when it saw a fat32 drive, it did not "see" it, it just assumes an unformatted HDD
and does its thing from step 1 to finish, recreating the entire preload..
newer recovery CD's do things a bit differently, but i think, for some reason, the
fat32 blindness remains..
Mark Bell wrote:
> At 07:50 AM 12/24/98 -0800, Randal Whittle wrote:
> >At 11:14 PM 12/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >>assuming the win95 load is the factory preload from the recovery disc,
> >>reload the DVD application..
> >>then it should find the CD
> >
> > FYI, I went to do a clean re-install on my TP600 a few weeks ago and for
> >some reason the recovery CD wouldn't work.
> >
> > A call to EZServe uncovered the problem: I had changed the partition to
> >FAT32 (using Partition Magic). What's more, I *couldn't* change it back to
> >FAT16 without a complete re-initialization of the entire drive (I was told
> >that if I used Partition Magic to change it back to FAT16, that the system
> >sees it as a "Non-DOS" disk and the recovery CD would *still* not work).
> >Needless to say, I had moved most of the C: drive data over to D: or E: for
> >easy return back to C: after the new install, so I didn't want to
> >re-initialize the entire disk!
> >
> > So...if you have FAT32 on your C: drive, that maybe the reason your
> >recovery CD doesn't work.
>
> On a 770 (9549-1AU), I had the entire volume as one FAT32 partition. The
> recoveryCD
> restored it no problem to its original FAT16 3 partition miasma of drives.
> I did
> FDISK and reformat it with standard DOS tools, though. Could it be
> Partition Magic
> that is the cause?
>
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