From: Michael W. Godfrey (migod_at_plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 09:19:17 EST
Wow, that got stuck in a timewarp.
The reply seems to have been sent Thu, 06 Apr 2000 and
it arrived Fri, 1 Feb, 2002
Previously, levi_at_localhost.nc3a.nato.int wrote:
> OK..
> heres my take..
>
> ANY hard drive will take a recovery CD image..
> at least up to the 770Z and 600E 400mhz models..
>
> James is correct to a point, but if there is NOTHING on the drive, the recove
> ry
> process should ask you what you want..
> (format only "C:" drive or make and format everything..?)
> what I do, when i do it, is let it deal with just the first partition, which
> it
> will make as a fat16..
>
> then i do the PQ Magic thing to get one huge partition..
> (on the 770Z, its one 25gig partition)
>
> for ease, i usually keep a virgin, restore image on the LAN and just copy it
> to
> the target drive..
>
> Michael Geary wrote:
>
> > Mike G to Mike G: <g>
> >
> > It sounds like James' solution ought to take care of it for you. In case it
> > doesn't, here's another approach that will work. Use the restore CD to
> > refresh the original 6.4Gb drive. Then use Partition Magic, Drive Copy,
> > Drive Image, or Ghost to copy the fresh 2Gb C: partition from the 6.4Gb
> > drive to the new 18Gb drive.
> >
> > You will need the Ultraslimbay 2nd HDD Adapter to do this, but now that you
> > have two hard drives, that's a part you want to have anyway.
> >
> > You can get Ghost from www.ghost.com, or any of the other three products I
> > mentioned from www.powerquest.com. There is a 15-day free trial version of
> > the Corporate edition of Ghost; don't know about free trials on the
> > PowerQuest products.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > > I went ahead and bought an 18G Toshiba HDD for my TP600E.
> > >
> > > I would like to do a clean install of the original (Win98) software from
> > > the emergency disk rather than a drive copy -- my old HDD has
> > > lots of junk,
> > > including an aborted install of NT4 that I don't wish to keep.
> > >
> > > My idea was to use the emergency CDROM to reinstall everything (Win98 plu
> s
> > > TP specific goodies), then get updated TP drivers, re-install my apps, an
> d
> > > then move over the (relatively small amount) of personal data that I
> > > have already copied onto my desktop machine.
> > >
> > > BUT ... when I insert the recovery CD, it starts up then flashes
> > > a complaint
> > of "invalid drive specification" (or something similar -- it
> > > disappears too
> > > quickly to be sure), and dumps me at the A: prompt.
> > >
> > > Any ideas what Ive done wrong? Does the emergency CD assume I'm using th
> e
> > > orginal 6Gig HDD?
> > >
> > > For "fun" I went ahead and did a small Linux installation and got it all
> > > working fine, so the drive seems OK.
>
> --
> Happy trails...
>
> ** Bill Morrow ** :-)
> WEB page http://thinkpads.com
> e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
>
>
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