[TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP

[Lee Fickenscher]

AFAIK, fdisk won't cut it as overlay (I believe) gets installed in that
magic 1st sector or whatever it is... fdisk /mbr would prolly work
though I'm not sure

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:56:16PM -0500, Jim Ray wrote:
> That's why the good lord made fdisk :-)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lee Fickenscher [mailto:elfick at trilug.org] 
> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:38 PM
> > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP
> > 
> > 
> > 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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