[ltp] Keeping Win2K during/after repartitioning a T20?

[Errikos Pitsos]

Hi Robert,

I used PM 6.0 and it worked fine, after I had some problems with 5.0 which 
did not work. I don't know about OS/2, there seemed to be some problems 
with it, see earlier traffic in the list.
My problem appeared, when I wanted to reinstall win2k from the IBM OEM CDs. 
They are a total &!#$@!, I really don't understand how you can supply such 
an incompetent install program. They only allow you to install win2k 
together with a repartitioning of your HD, namely to one big partition(you 
can't install it to an existing partition), hence killing your linux and 
whatever you had before(e.g. a data partition). So be careful with this or 
have some _normal_ win2k install CDs handy(or try to hack the script, this 
is what I had to do, as I did not have another way to install win2k).

erik

At 17:13 12/18/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all, and apologies if this has already been asked/answered here:
>
>Does anyone have guidance/gotchas for repartitioning a Thinkpad T20
>that already has Windows 2000 Pro loaded - without losing the Win2K
>partition?  Hints/warnings for using PartitionMagic 4.0 are needed.
>
>The machine belongs to my employer, so messing with it such that a
>complete reload of Win2K etc. plus reconfiguration is something I'd
>_really_ prefer to avoid.  But I would like to repartition the hard
>drive (~12GB with ~8.7GB free) to add Linux (and OS/2) for research.
>
>I've used PartitionMagic before on other machines (a Dell notebook,
>Thinkpad 770X, and self-built Athlon tower) and have seen the heart
>stopping error messages, gotten around some situations, and lost my
>Win98 system once.  Since NT/Win2K have nasty habits regarding hard
>drive "ownership" and I'm not knowledgable about the Win2K details,
>I'll greatly appreciate any experiences or pointers anyone can give.
>
>TIA,
>Robert Munro
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