[ltp] [slightly OT] windows+linux coexistence

[Scott Dixon]

Well, it is possible to get older thinkpads to use larger disks, like
the 20GB travelstar to work.  But it takes some work.  See my writeup on
getting a 12GB travelstart disk to work on a 560e:
http://www.thinkpads.com/largeHDD560.htm
The same process should work for you.
HTH.
Scott
On 15 Jun 2001 00:08:56 -0400, George Staikos wrote:
> 
>    I just bought a new 20gb travelstar for my i series machine and I'm having 
> all kinds of problems getting windows to load on it.  I tried creating the 
> partition table and installing windows first(before linux).  After the 
> recovery stage, when it rebooted it gave me a Disk I/O error.  I said "screw 
> it" and installed Mandrake on the disk.  This went by with ease - no problems 
> at all.  I've been using it for a few weeks now.  Today I decided to try to 
> get Windows to go again.  Basically the best I can do is get it to either a) 
> trash my partition table and not boot   or b) immediately print "Disk I/O 
> error".   I'm using the original recovery CD that came with the machine.  Are 
> there any solutions for this?  Is there anything I can do?  I'm guessing that 
> the Win98 cd can't handle 20gb disks.
> 
> Quite honestly I would just like to get:
> 
>   - reasonable DVD playing  (something has regressed recently and now I get 
> 20% skipped frames in xine - not good enough to watch a movie)
>   - specs for the easylaunch keys so I don't have to try to reverse engineer 
> the damned things.
> 
>    (Yes IBM, you still haven't given us any specs on this.)
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> 
> George Staikos
> 
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