From: Cottrell, Eric (ecottrell_at_Doble.com)
Date: Tue Feb 02 1999 - 11:21:12 EST
Hello,
If Mr Lee can get ahold of a bootable DOS disk with FDISK and
system tools on it he could use that to create the Partition.
Each of my systems has a "recovery disk" which is a floppy
(or floppies) with DOS and the required drivers to have the CD
drive work. There are utilities to partition and format disks.
I also have a text editor and SYS on it as well.
It is used in cases of upgrading or failure of the Hard Drive
as my 365ED and other non-Thinkpad systems do not have
a recovery CD.
In Windows 95 you can make a bootable dos disk (Format A: /S)
and copy some programs in the \Windows\Command to the floppy.
I suppose you can do the same for Win98 as well.
73 Eric ecottrell_at_doble.com
>----------
>From: Randal Whittle[SMTP:rwhittle_at_usa.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 11:00 AM
>To: Albert C. Lee; TP List
>Subject: Re: Recovery CD help!
>
>At 06:44 AM 2/2/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Well... I decided last night that I had it with Windows NT4... the
>>device support is just so terrible, I can't take it anymore. So I
>>want to recover Win98 using the recovery CD. The only thing is I have
>>4 other partitions I need to keep intact.
>>
>>Windows NT is currently residing on drive C: which has 500 mb of
>>space, formatted NTFS. Is this going to be enough space to recover
>>the CD in?
>>
>>What else should I be aware of?
>
> I'm not sure which TP you have, but on my TP 600 I did something similar
>just a few months ago:
>
> 1) Get everything off that first partition that you want to keep.
>
> 2) Format that first partition to FAT (Regular FAT--FAT16).
>
> 3) Do the regular install routine for the recovery CD, but tell it you
>only want to wipe out the initial partition (C Drive), rather than the
>whole hard disk.
>
> Here's the problem: Step 2 is tough. I've been told Partition Magic may
>do it, but the way it goes about things may not suffice for the recovery CD
>program. Try it and see. Otherwise, you *can't* initialize the primary
>partition on a HD without wiping out the whole HD--which means you'll need
>to get your data in the other partitions off too.
>
> The reason for the re-format? I was told by EZ-serve 2nd-level tech
>support that the recovery CD program would not work on a FAT32 partition
>(and I presume the same would be the case for your NTFS partition). Hence
>the need to have it formatted for FAT16. They assured me also that
>Partition Magic wouldn't work--that it would do it, but does so in a way
>that programs like IBM's recovery CD program would see it as a "Non-DOS"
>disk, which is just as bad. It needs to see it as a FAT16. If it does so,
>then you run the recovery CD in a way that it wipes out only the first
>partition. If not, then you have to have it wipe out the whole HD or not
>run the recovery at all.
>
>- Randy
>
>
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