From: Rob Bell (rbell1_at_csc.com)
Date: Fri Oct 02 1998 - 11:57:37 EDT
But, in all fairness to IBM, the system restoration CD is doing what it
was supposed to. It is meant to restore your ThinkPad _exactly_ back to
the way it was originally configured by IBM. It's not designed as a
simple install disk for Windows and the other apps. I believe you can
access the Windows installation cab files on the CD and use them to
install if you want, but it's been a while since I've looked into this.
Later,
Rob
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Rob Bell
Senior Consultant, CPD Professional
CSC Consulting, Minneapolis, MN
rob_bell_at_nospam@csi.com
ThinkPad 770 running NT4, Win98, Win95, Linux
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John H. Kim wrote:
>
> If you think you're not interested in this Partition Magic
> thread:
>
> I tried out the system restoration CD thingy just to see what
> it was about. It does *not* just restore your system files.
> It does a complete fdisk and format of your hard drive making
> it one big honking C: partition again. Lame lame lame lame
> lame.
>
> Since the Windows install CD doesn't appear to ship with the
> Thinkpad in any other form (mine is refurbished so it's
> possible it was missing), if you want Windows on your machine
> with a different partitioning scheme, you *need* a utility
> like Partition Magic.
>
> (I was extremely pissed when it fdisk'ed over my entire Linux
> installation instead of being a good little program and
> installing on the large C: partition I'd left open. I suppose
> I should've listened to the warnings about "all data on the
> hard drive" but I never dreamed it would do it in such a
> stupid way...)
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim_at_stormhaven.org
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