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

[Tim Prince]

I suppose my employer did me a favor by not handing me the CD which came
with the T20.  However, the policy was not invented by IBM; it's the
procedure Microsoft has insisted upon for all OEM licenses, in order to
make the CD's unusable for any purpose other than to restore factory
single boot installation on the OEM's own products only.  My W2K is a
normal dual boot installation from a standard CD, with video driver
obtained from the IBM web site.  The linux is RH6.2 with standard xfree
svga server updates.  Even the W98SE works most of the time now that
I've had to remove the Office2k which was originally installed in a
mirroring operation, replacing it with an installation from a site
license .zip.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Errikos Pitsos" <ml1@xerx.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: [ltp] Keeping Win2K during/after repartitioning a T20?


> 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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