Phil Astley wrote:
> Recently we bought a laptop - and of course it came with XP preloaded.
>
> I played around to learn a bit, then tried to install eCS. It pretty 
> much installed - except I'd not checked on a few bits of info - such as 
> network card, etc. I didn't do a full install - just wanted to see if it 
> would work - which it looked like it would.
>
> I bought DFSee, repartitioned, then used the CD's that came with the 
> system to reinstall WinXP into the first partition (excluding the hidden 
> recovery partition).
>
> I'm now trying to install eCS - it lets me choose installation options, 
> displays the eComStation 1.2 window - then nada. The CD-ROM light 
> actually shows brief activity twice - but nothing else will happen. It 
> worked before I played around with partitioning - but not now. I'm very 
> confused. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
>   
Hi Phil,

Did you try just using eCS's LVM.EXE** ([CLI - not the graphical 
installation tool) from the installation CD [CLI/maintenance start] to 
do the following:

01. delete all partitions (zeroing MBR partition table in the process)
02. recreate primary partition for XP
03. install IBM-BM immediately following XP partition [to prevent XP 
grabbing whole of disk!]
04. reinstall XP from Recovery CDs [disabling BM in the process]
05. test-boot-XP to ensure it worked
06. boot eCS installation CD, re-enable IBM-BM
07. add XP to IBM-BM _without_ allocating it a volume-letter
08. reboot to XP via IBM-BM menu to ensure that works
09. reboot from eCS installation CD to CLI and using LVM.EXE ...
10. create logical _partition_ (not volume) for eCS installation and 
mark as installable
11. create any other logical _partitions_ for e.g. XP data/progs (to 
become FAT32/NTFS, depending whether you want to be able to write to 
them or not)
12. create any other logical partitions as placeholders required for eCS 
volumes [(maintenance or alternate eCS-boot?), apps, data]
8. Reboot again, this time to install eCS - hopefully successfully!

** make sure to exit with "saving changes" from F3 in all above procedures

Regards,
Mike

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