From: Dominique Pivard (domi_at_kenavo.fi)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 02:42:10 EST
OK, I happen to have 1) a TP701, 2) a 18GB Toshiba drive that is formatted
for a TP600, but not currently in it. So, for the purpose of
experimentation, I took the 2GB TravelStar out of its caddy and put the
18GB Toshiba in it.
The Toshiba has OS/2 boot manager as its first partition and OS/2 Warp 4,
Win98 and W2K install on it (the W2K boot loader controls both Windows).
When I booted the TP701, I did reach the boot manager menu, which means
the HD is recognized at least to some extent. However, when I select
either option on the menu, I get a message "Selected partition is not
formatted, hit any key". When I press Fn+F1 and page down to page 4, I
see: "Hard Disk: Not Installed".
So it appears that formatting and partitioning a large drive (18GB) in a
machine that recognizes such drives (TP600) and putting it into the TP701
doesn't work. I didn't see the point of trying anything else, since I
intend to keep what's on the Toshiba.
In any case, with all the respect I have for the TP701, I fail to see what
sense it makes to put a 18GB drive in it.
-Dominique
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 at 11:35 AM you, "Ed Camin" <ecamin_at_advi.net>, said:
>On a desktop, I was able to format a drive on a machine that recognized a
>large drive. I formated it into two partitions (8 & 2gig) and put it
>into a machine that the max was 8.2gig. Both partitions are recognized.
>Maybe it will work on a TP.
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