[NTLUG:Discuss] fips and XP

[Chris Cox]

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Ron Hamilton wrote:
| On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:54:12 -0500
| Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
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|>At least it doesn't use
|>a mandatory reformat/repartition like the Toshiba disks
|>do (unless you know the secret of course).
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| Hold up there Chris.. not that I would ever want to put windows back on my
toshiba.. but *if* I wanted to.. what's the secret of which you speak?  Back in
the days before I went 100% linux on this baby I used to lose all my linux
partitions every time windows would crap out and I would have to use the rescue
disks.  This prompted a 100% move (screw the games, nethack is all I need) from
any windows at all to pure linux.  A good thing to be sure, but I still desire
the knowledge in case somebody asks me.  I hate telling people what I believe to
be the truth, (you have to nuke your whole hard disk) when there seems to be a
more elegant solution (your secret).
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I think there's a post somewhere on usenet with the exact details
(or at least more exact).  The procedure applied strictly to
the newer Toshiba models.. mine is a 3000 (something) with
XP Prof.  Anyway, the recovery CD, if you look at the .BAT
files yield some information about what you need to execute
and when.  I partitioned the drive and kicked off one of the
.BAT files out of order.... but I can't remember the details.
Perhaps I shouldn't have opened my big mouth.  Tell you the
truth, now that I have a corporate unlocked XP Prof inside
of VMWare, I really don't ever boot the native XP anymore.

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