From: R Briganti (r.briganti_at_bellemead.com)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 21:22:01 EDT
You can use a 2nd installation of W2K with a minimal configuration to
restore a crashed disk. Just make sure the 2nd installation is in a
different directory than \WINNT.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu>
To: "Michael Geary" <Mike_at_geary.com>; "Stuart F. Biggar"
<Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.arizona.edu>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Thinkpad hard drive partitioning under W2K
> > That sounds like a good idea unless you need something other than NTFS
> > for data sharing between OSs (Solaris can read/write FAT32 but not
> > ntfs - I don't know about Linux).
>
> Linux can read ntfs OK, but the ntfs write support was only recently
> released and is supposed to
> be unreliable. BTW, I only discovered this recently, when my desktop HD
> crashed and when I installed
> W2K on the replacement drive I let it format as ntfs. (I like to use a
> small loopback Linux as a Windows
> backup and recovery utility - it is much easier to do a full OS restore if
> one is running from an OS other
> than the one being restored. Windows users will generally use DOS for
this,
> but on some machines - particularly
> laptops - the easy CD and networking support of Linux is definitely
> convenient. Alas, I now cannot do this
> unless I convert the HD from ntfs to Fat or Fat32.)
>
> David R.
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