[TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP

[Lee Fickenscher]

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:robertlmarti at earthlink.net] 
> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:01 PM
> > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > 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 
> > 
> > 
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