Text 3860, 53 rader
Skriven 2005-02-17 12:44:08 av Charles Scaglione (1:106/2000.0)
   Kommentar till text 3839 av Thurston Ackerman (1:123/140)
Ärende: SP2 done 5x.
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THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote to CHARLES SCAGLIONE

Hi Ack:

TA>Would these guidelines to Jean probably apply to similar, but
TA>other than IBM  configerations?

Most, if not all OEM builders/suppliers use the same guidelines.  So 
yes, your SystemTiger came with a preinstalled BIOS locked (already 
activated) copy of XP Home.

TA>I have a SystemTiger with 1.8gHz P4 desktop box (that came with
TA>preactivated OEM XP-Home OS in its original 40 GB HD) that got
TA>corrupted when I attempted to install a new linux SuSE 9.1 OS
TA>in newly installed companion 160 gbz HD (where we had installed
TA>my Win98se OS based clone via the Maxtor supplied software). We
TA>did a partitial recovery by reinstalling my treasured Win98se
TA>on the new 160 GB'er, to get through the winter holidays 8-)

TA>Some stormy day I hope to temporarly remove the new 160 GB'er.
TA>Plug in the original 40 GB'er and restore the XP-Home; so your
TA>commentaries are being saved for then when. If the recovery is
TA>successfull I will reinstall the 160 GB'er companion and then
TA>coupe with overcoming the 120 GB available media limitation.

You should have no problem restoring it to its original configuration 
provided you use the OEM restore copy of XP Home supplied by Tiger.  It 
should not need to be activated.

As for the HDD size limitation for the 160 GB HDD - remember you must be 
using XP Home SP1 or SP2 AND a controller capable of 48bit LBA.  
Otherwise the drive will only be usable up to 137 GB.  I'm not sure what 
the limitations are for SuSE 9.0?  Unlike XP, Win98SE will only be able 
to "see" a drive that large provided your BIOS can accommodate it.

TA>(I have wondered if I have PartitonIt devide it in half for the
TA>Win98se OS in as FAT 32 and the other half for my old SuSE 9.0
TA>linux OS, might accomplish full 160 GB total use ?-)

Sure, you can do that.  But remember that FAT-32 will use large clusters  
for any partition 8 GB and more.  Using two partitions of 80 GB each, 
the cluster size will be 32K.  Not a big deal nowadays with HDDs selling 
for less and less especially the larger ones.  SuSE 9.0 and Win98SE 
should exist nicely together in a dual boot configuration.

Regards.

chscag@gmail.com

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