From: Donald Mak (dvmak_at_ibm.net)
Date: Thu May 13 1999 - 21:24:31 EDT
IBM formats the first 2 gigs as fat 16 and that is your c: drive. The d:
drive is the rest (12 gigs) and that is fat32.
The reason behind this is that the recovery CD that you received must read a
fat16 drive to install. So if you ever plan on reinstalling from the
recovery CD then leave the C: drive as fat16. Besides there are a few older
widow apps out there that will not work on fat 32 so it's nice to have a fat
16 for those occasions.
Fat16 is also limitted to 2 gigs that's why the magic number of 2 gigs on
the C: drive.
Install you apps wherever you like, you have plenty of room.
As for migrating apps from another system, do you have the apps on disk or
are you planning on copying them and merging the registry? I think Norton
Utilities has a feature that will help with that kind of situation but I
found that it never works just right and the registry can suffer. Best to
try to do a fresh install of apps and just copy over any data files.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: Vincent Poy <vince_at_mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 4:16 PM
Subject: ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU
> I just got my ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU and just have a question
> regarding the HDD before I attempt to manually reinstall and clone the
> apps and data I have on my 385ED 2635-5EU. I would like to take this time
> to thank Bill, Joy, Randy, Donald, and anyone else I forgot for their tips
> and advice before. Anyways, I got the 14.1GB Hard Drive model and I
> noticed in the control panel, there is both a C and the D drive. I
> thought everything was supposed to be on one drive level rather than two.
> Now, my question is when I install things, what drive do I put it on or is
> one of them really a virtual drive letter and I can just put everything on
> C? I haven't went over 8 GB's for EIDE/SCSI drives on my Desktop under
> Win95/98 and the big drives usually are for my FreeBSD partitions.
>
>
> Cheers,
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