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    cf-18 recovery - options for re-installing Windoze

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by sunrk, Apr 25, 2009.

  1. sunrk

    sunrk Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok well having acquired a set of recovery CD's for my CF-18 and after swapping the old 40 gb drive for one of the new Samsung 160 gb spinpoint drives I purchased, I'm having a go at installing the correct version of Windoze onto the new disk.

    The first re-install option seems like the logical way to go but I was curious about the second option which sets up two partitions and puts user data on the second one with Windows being on the first. Do many people use that option? Are there any specific software applications (probably military?) which require it set up that way?

    Craig.
     
    sunrk, Apr 25, 2009
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  2. Alex

    Alex Super Moderator

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    For a 160 GB drive you might as well partition
    The total size after formatting is 149 GB
    Use 30 to 50 GB for windows and leave the rest as storage
    I don’t remember on the mk-2 what the bios reports as hard drive size
    If the bios reports anything less that 160GB on that drive you will have no other option that partitioning as you will risk data loss

    Alex
     
    Alex, Apr 26, 2009
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