[TriLUG] need to rein in WinXP

[Roy Vestal]

Then you wipe it! works great!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Fickenscher" <elfick at trilug.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:38 PM
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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