[ltp] BM/PM 6.0 and Win2K (was: Keeping Win2K during/after repartitioning a T20?)

[Tim Prince]

So, it looks like BM remains nothing but trouble when used with NT or 2K.
I've never tried it since 2K came out, no reason for dealing with that
aggravation.  Some people do recommend having a FAT partition with NTLDR in
it, even if there's no OS installed there.  Why not use PM to clean out the
FAT partition, do a repair installation of W2K if necessary, get into linux
and use dd to copy the 1st 512 byte sector of linux root to a file on the
FAT partition, and put the reference to it in the boot.ini?  Admittedly, I
might get lost without a standard W2K CD.  My co-worker boots RH62 from a
floppy, as he installs his 2K from an original recovery CD; our IT
department didn't throw his out like they did mine when they replaced 2K
with 98SE.  That's an idea, now that they've demanded I turn the T20 in to
have their 98SE replaced by 2K again, wiping out linux, I'll demand they
turn over a 2K installer or recovery CD.  Anyone know if a Whistler CD will
do the job on a T20?

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Newman" <dnewman@networktest.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: [ltp] BM/PM 6.0 and Win2K (was: Keeping Win2K during/after
repartitioning a T20?)


>
> I'm having a problem with Boot Magic/Partition Magic 6.0 on a T21 with a
> 10-Gbyte hard drive.
>
> I'd like to reserve 7 Gbytes for Windows 2000, which came preinstalled,
and
> devote the rest to RH Linux (6.2 or 7.0). I'd also like to uninstall Boot
> Magic and use either LILO or NTLDR to boot the machine.
>
> Here's the problem: Because Boot Magic won't install on an NTFS partition
I
> had to create a small FAT partition and put Boot Magic on that. However,
W2K
> *hid* that partition, and I'm not able to unhide it, even using Partition
> Magic. (I can tell PM to unhide it and apply the change but it doesn't
> take.)
>
> So -- any ideas how to access Boot Magic to blow it away?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> David Newman
>
>
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