Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 15:19:08 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
>I just booted my L110 from the FDD / Win'98 recovery diskette (Shift+F5), >from cold. > >I just don't get it - how can C: and D: and E: "see" the whole 8GB, 1GB, >and >20GB respectively??? No Win'2K, no fancy BIOS-enhancing software, >absolutely >nothing... > I'm *guessing* here, but didn't you previously partition the drive in the sizes you mention? If that's the case, I'd suspect that windows sees the partition info and calculates sizes accordingly. If the directory info is at the front of the disc, as it would be if you've just rebuilt everything, then it will be able to read that without problems and probably some, or even all, of the files. It might even be able to write new files,(95 wouldn't) but I'd be very careful about using it without testing. Actually (major speculation mode) it occurs to me that as w98 only uses the bios at initialisation, that is might be quite happy once things have booted. Anyone got a big disk to experiment? _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
