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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:10:31 -0700
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@roadrunner.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Establishing FAT32

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I should mention that when I switched over to WinXP, it would only allow
me to format my "monster" drive as FAT. I have a FAT32 volume on this
machine, shared between WinXP and eCS, so I don't know why I wasn't
allowed to choose how I would format the card.

I think I'll go read about my DFSee options.
Colin

Harry Motin wrote:
> Jordan and Colin,
> Thank you for your responses. I'll try out what you suggested.
> HCM
>
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:37:20 -0700, scoug-help@scoug.com wrote:
>
>
>> --- Colin Campbell wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Harry,
>>> I found an old 8MB Compact Flash drive
>>>
>>> I stuck it in my old PNY Compact Flash card reader,
>>> and plugged it in to
>>> a USB slot. I opened LVM from Local System, System
>>> Setup, Maintenance &
>>> Installation Volume Manager. Then, I clicked on
>>> "Refresh Removeable
>>> Media", and nothing appeared to happen.
>>>
>> You're referring to compact flash, rather than a hard
>> drive, so what I'm about to say may not be relevant .
>> . . .
>> Sorry to go back to mentioning the installer, but
>> here's what happened on the ThinkPad. When I received
>> it, it already had the W2K boot partition -- the whole
>> C:, e.g. essentially all of the 20G hard drive --
>> which happened to have been FAT-32. I decided to
>> leave it as FAT-32. After making a safety image with
>> DFSEE (I always like to have a path of retreat, if
>> necessary), I shrank the C: down to 10G., to make room
>> for eCS. Then I installed RC4 in a newly created HPFS
>> E: (D: remains the DVD-ROM drive.) I had the
>> installer enable FAT-32 IFS, which is an option.
>> Maybe I _did_ have LVM designate the C: as a
>> compatibility volume, but have zero recollection of
>> having done this, and so am somewhat skeptical that I
>> did. eCS went on fine, and I've had read / write
>> access to C: ever since. (But I try to greatly
>> minimize the writes, because I lack full confidence in
>> the safety of this.)
>>
>>
>> Jordan
>>

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