From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 13:26:07 EST
James..
wondering out loud, here, since the subject is current..
is there a dual boot manager that can be applied to a HDD that will make an
empty second partition with, perhaps, a DOS command.com a "C:" drive.. if
so, why not do a restore from a recovery CD to a seperate HDD, then (using
ghost or drive copy or the like) copy it to the aforementioned "C:"
partition..
thus you wind up with a dual booting factory preload on each bootable
partition..??
if any of this sounds foolish, then its not me, but one of the birds eating
this keyboard..! :-)
Bill Morrow, or Lorita as the case may be..
----- Original Message -----
From: "James H. E. Maugham" <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com>
To: <Yves.Soussi_at_penuries.com>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 10:41 AM
Subject: RE: TP600X - 650Mhz -2645-9fg - recovery cd WIN98
> Yves,
>
> Yves.Soussi_at_penuries.com [mailto:Yves.Soussi_at_penuries.com] wrote:
>
> > 1) I own a TP600X - 650Mhz -2645-9fg . It is under W2K.
> >
> > I need a recovery cd under WIN98 . Can somebody help me ?
>
> Is it your intent to make this a W98 machine rather than W2K? I would
strongly
> urge you to re-consider this step as W2K runs with so much more stability
on the
> 600 vs. W98.
>
> If you simply want to add W98 to the machine, a recovery CD is _not_ the
means
> to do it, you need a retail copy of W98. You cannot use two different IBM
> recovery CDs to load two operating systems, as they will both _only_ load
to the
> C: partition of the drive and will over-write each other. Neither CD
contains a
> retail copy of the OS, but rather a drive image of the OS as installed on
the
> relevant system.
>
> Even with a retail copy of W98, if you want to retain your install of W2K
and
> have a dual boot machine, you'll need something like BootManager or
similar. Or,
> if you were able to obtain a recovery CD in W98 for your system, you could
use
> that to install W98 to your C: partition and then use a retail copy of W2K
to
> install to your D: partition. W2K will automatically load the boot manager
to
> the C: partition so you can dual boot the machine if you choose this
option
> during installation, which I strongly recommend.
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>
>
>
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