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Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:04:15 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Dell PC has arrived - now for the customization with eCS!

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In <41F71F57.7010005@adelphia.net>, on 01/25/05
at 10:19 PM, Colin Campbell said:

>You're absolutely right - I did mis-write the size, and badly.

When the numbers get this large it's easy to misplace a couple of 0s now
and then.

>I ran DFSee's DFSTART on the drive today. I'm attaching DFSTARTX.LOG
>for anyone who's interested. It isn't crystal clear to me, but there is
>a space that may be a recovery partition.

There appear to be two Dell preloaded partitions - a utility partition and
a recovery partition. You windows partition is the big one in the middle.

>Do you mean before installing any OS, or before installing eCS or OS/2?

Before installing XP.

>It sounds like you're telling me that I should just blow away the entire
>C: drive and start over.

When did I say that? IAC, I would never recommend that unless you had
recovery CDs or you were absolutely sure you would never have any use for
the disk content. The system you received did not have an empty disk.

>If so, how would you recommend doing that?

See above. I didn't and I wouldn't.

>Would I use PM to get started, then use LVM once I've re-gen'ed WinXP?

If PM can resize the NTFS partition, there's nothing to re-gen. You can
just proceed with the eCS 1.2 install.

>Do you believe the resize _will_ fail, or _might_ fail, if I use PM 6.0?

I have no clue. I know as little as possible about Windows based tools.

>Is there a chance that DFSee would do it successfully?

No. DFSee does not yet do NTFS resizing.

>Should I try to beg, borrow, or (shiver) buy the latest PM?

It's probably your best chance for success.

Steven

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