From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Fri May 14 1999 - 03:06:48 EDT
Do what i do..
copy the entire preload to a networked drive (i have many generations of
these).. then its a simple matter to just copy the whole thing back to a fat16
or a fat32 partition..
does not care..
also, the image on the CD is just a big zip file..
you can unzip it to a HDD of ANY fatxx... :-)
and thats MY two bits worth... <G>
Donald Mak wrote:
> IBM formats the first 2 gigs as fat 16 and that is your c: drive. The d:
> drive is the rest (12 gigs) and that is fat32.
> The reason behind this is that the recovery CD that you received must read a
> fat16 drive to install. So if you ever plan on reinstalling from the
> recovery CD then leave the C: drive as fat16. Besides there are a few older
> widow apps out there that will not work on fat 32 so it's nice to have a fat
> 16 for those occasions.
> Fat16 is also limitted to 2 gigs that's why the magic number of 2 gigs on
> the C: drive.
> Install you apps wherever you like, you have plenty of room.
> As for migrating apps from another system, do you have the apps on disk or
> are you planning on copying them and merging the registry? I think Norton
> Utilities has a feature that will help with that kind of situation but I
> found that it never works just right and the registry can suffer. Best to
> try to do a fresh install of apps and just copy over any data files.
>
> Don
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vincent Poy <vince_at_mail.MCESTATE.COM>
> To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 4:16 PM
> Subject: ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU
>
> > I just got my ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU and just have a question
> > regarding the HDD before I attempt to manually reinstall and clone the
> > apps and data I have on my 385ED 2635-5EU. I would like to take this time
> > to thank Bill, Joy, Randy, Donald, and anyone else I forgot for their tips
> > and advice before. Anyways, I got the 14.1GB Hard Drive model and I
> > noticed in the control panel, there is both a C and the D drive. I
> > thought everything was supposed to be on one drive level rather than two.
> > Now, my question is when I install things, what drive do I put it on or is
> > one of them really a virtual drive letter and I can just put everything on
> > C? I haven't went over 8 GB's for EIDE/SCSI drives on my Desktop under
> > Win95/98 and the big drives usually are for my FreeBSD partitions.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
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