From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 13:36:37 EDT
Hmm... You didn't say anything about *why* you want to partition the drive.
What are the goals you have in mind there?
Stuart mentioned partitioning his drive to run Unix in a dual-boot. If you
want to do something like that, I recommend using VMware or Virtual PC. Much
better than dual-booting:
http://www.vmware.com/
http://preview.connectix.com/
If the drive comes formatted as FAT32, I would suggest converting it to NTFS
using the utility provided with Windows 2000. (Click Start/Help, select the
Index tab, and type in "ntfs".) If it's one big partition, I would leave it
that way. NTFS can handle a big partition with no problems.
Other than that, I would just start using the machine. It will come all set
up and ready to use.
-Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Wright [mailto:jeffw_at_bigpond.net.au]
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 2:43 AM
> To: Thinkpad mailing list
> Subject: Thinkpad hard drive partitioning under W2K
>
>
> I'm expecting delivery of my new Thinkpad (T21 PIII850, 32Gb HD,
> 256 Mb RAM,
> 14.1 SXGA) in the next fwe days. This will be my first experience with
> WIN2000.
>
> The first thing with any new machine is to set up the drive partitions.
> Does PQ Partition Magic work on WIN2000? Can anyone suggest a better way?
>
> More generally, I have my own set of steps for setting up a new machine.
> Would be interested in knowing what others do as as first steps.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
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