From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Fri Oct 02 1998 - 13:12:45 EDT
John..
you WERE warned...
i don't know which TP you have, but mose recent ones come with the
restore CD and it gives you the option of doing in the entire HDD orjust
the "C:" partition..
well, at least the two restore CD's for the 770-1AU and the 770-5AU
(ED)...
besides, its ALL just one huge zip file and some .BAT files..
the recent CD's are also bootable..
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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