[TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP

[Lee Fickenscher]

Chip,
I'd recommend just continue to use PM. One word of caution, don't use PM
on a drive that uses overlay. I've done this without realizing it and it
resulted in severe part table scramble (1 partition began before the
previous 1 ended).

If you are going to be at the next LUG meeting on the 10th ( I believe
), and you can wait that long, I will bring my copy for you to use. (
I've never installed it onto a drive and I only use it from the CD so
this should be completely legal if any license Nazis are monitoring)

-Lee

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:03:08AM +0000, Chip Davis wrote:
> I just bought a new ThinkPad T30 which came with WindowsXP Pro installed.
> Before I can install any OSes I trust (OS/2 Warp/EcomStation, RHL 9) I
> need to curb XP's hegemony over the 60G disk.  The whole damn thing is
> formatted as an NTFS C: drive.  XP doesn't take up but 5G (does MVS need
> that much DASD space these days?) but then there's that peculiar matter
> of the hidden "recovery partition".  
> 
> I have successfully used Partition Magic in the past to rein in Windows'
> gluttony but that was before Linux.  Is there a better tool to use when
> dealing with UNIX filesystems?
> 
> If not, does anyone have a copy of PM I could borrow just long enough to
> spank Windows?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Chip Davis-
> 
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