** Reply to message from "Jeffrey Race" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:36:43 +0700
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:17:12 -0500, Al Heath wrote:
>
> > Anyway I tried restoring XP
> >several times and various other shrinking attempts but ended up using
> >OS/2's LVM to complete wipe the disk and repartition as I wanted as XP also
> >wouldn't shrink down as far as I wanted due to some "non relocateable
> >files" (and also it wouldn't boot away after shrinking to various attempted
> >sizes ... anyway, I did do various partition restores in between and
> >booting reverified until after trying again and again I finally gave up and
> >wiped it from the machine.)
>
> Do I understand that repartitioning the T43 after XP has gone NTFS at
> virgin boot means I destroy the XP source files? (Supposed to be
> hidden somewhere, I think)
>
> I don't think I want to do that.
Way off topic here, but I just mangled two new Toshiba laptops to make use of
that 100g drive and had only one samll gotcha when shrinking the XP Pro
partiton: I had to use DFSEE to re-write the MBR with a Windows signature to
get it to boot after shrinking it. Like Al, I found that I couldn't get the
NTFS partition as small as I wanted, but the shrink worked on both - one that
had been booted and updated, the other that had never been run.
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