Then you wipe it! works great! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Fickenscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP
> Unless, as in my case, you have a pile of old drives laying around and > you just happened to grab on that had overlay installed from a previous > system... :-( > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:23:22PM -0500, Jim Ray wrote: > > You don't have to worry about overlay unless your using a Pentium 133 > > MHz or older and have a big hard drive over 2 GB. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Robert L Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:01 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP > > > > > > > > > I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the term "overlay" in > > > reference to a drive. Is that something I should worry about > > > with a factory installation of WindowsXP on a ThinkPad? > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > its a thunk normally used when the bios can't handle the size > > > of the HD installed the overlay gets put on before anything else then > > > Bios talks to overlay > > > overlay runs the disk > > > the problem is the "funny math" used > > > sort of like the > > > Manager <> geek > > > geek <> work > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TriLUG mailing list > > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
