Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:58:10 -0700
From: Garry Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How To Get Win95 etc. on my prospective L70 Hard Drive Upgrade?
David Chien wrote:
> er? ....so much for my ol' L50/J where I did just that and had it
>hibernating just peachy.... The drive geometry should, I hope, remain
>the same from Libretto to desktop. I was able to see all my data okay
>with the IDE converter on the PC, so that went well. PM can be used;
>just manually make sure the partition is 60+MB less than the end of the
>HD and leave the empty space undefined and unpartitioned. That worked
>just peachy for mine....
I had forgotten that trick. David's and Arndt's messages, that I was replying
to, didn't mention that essential bit, and I forgot about it myself.
I think we're all agreed: you can indeed partition and format and do
everything for an 8-gig-or-less drive via a desktop, for later use on a
Libretto, as long as you leave the last X megabytes unused, where "X" is a
number like 72.
There's still a couple caveats. My copy of Partition Magic will then refuse
to look at that drive once it's plugged into the Libretto. I would *guess*
(not sure, haven't done the experiment), that if you run Windows NT on your
Libretto, its Disk Administrator will also be upset with the desktop-created
disk layout forever after. It sure was when I went the other direction,
Libretto-to-Desktop, with a drive once. Can't remember whether fdisk is upset
too. Windows is by nature so screwy it's hard to remember all the
unsuccessful experiments that you do.
So, if you lay out on a desktop, you may have to plug the drive back into the
desktop to make any layout changes.
"You pays your money, you takes your choices."
Garry
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