From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 13:06:38 EST
Someone at NATO seems to be bouncing old mail back to the list (these were
all already-posted messages).
Maybe a new weapon to defeat the "evil axis"?-)
- David R.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael W. Godfrey" <migod_at_plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca>
To: <penzance_at_gate.net>
Cc: <levi_at_localhost.nc3a.nato.int>; <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: using emergency CD installation on a new HD
>
>
>
> 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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