From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 19:31:36 EDT
MOST problems are due to NOT haveing the startup options set thus:
1. CD
2. Floppy
3. HDD
you need to run the recovery process through to the end and what probably
happened is it did not make it to the CMD file that sets WinXP up..
in any event, set the boot sequence as above and start over..
i THINK WXP will set itself up as NTFS once the recovery process is finished
and all the drivers and utilities are in place..
if not, just do it manually, but for safety sake, reboot first.. :-)
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Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "TD" <ouatic_at_texas.net>
To: "Thinkpad List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 7:14 PM
Subject: Problem using Recovery CD on A31
> Hey guys,
>
> I called IBM earlier this week to obtain the recovery CDs for a new A31 so
> that I could FDISK the hard drive and partition the drive into 2 20 GB
> drives instead of the single 40 GB it came as.
>
> So I fdisk the HD..deleting all partitions...created the two new
partitions
> C&D and then booted up the 1st recovery CD.
>
> The 1st Recovery CD just restores WinXP...but it automatically formats the
> drive to a FAT32 file system. I know that I can convert the files system
> using the CONVERT command...but the Windows XP help system recommends not
> doing that...it recommends installing WinXP on a preformated NTFS drive.
>
> So I go ahead and convert the C drive to NTSF...and restart the 1st
recovery
> CD thinking that since I already converted the drive to NTSF....the
recovery
> CD would recognize the file system and therefore install the OS with the
> same properties...but nope...it reformats the system back into FAT32.
>
> Does anyone know if there is any way to restinstall WinXP using the
recovery
> CDs and have it format the drive using a NTFS file system? I would expect
> that the install system would at least give you an option to choose which
> file system to install? And with IBM being marketed at the business
sector
> why would the default install be to a less secure file system like FAT32?
>
> Anyways...any help with this is appreciated.
>
> -TD-
>
>
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