Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ntfsprogs 1.13.1?

[Sebastian H. <hah...@we...>]

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Hi Anton,

On Apr 23, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Sebastian Hahn wrote:
>> On Apr 23, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>>> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>>>>> Ah.  I just use the same Windows installation I did on the real  
>>>>> machine.
>>>>> I created a second hardware profile, shut down windows, booted  
>>>>> into
>>>>> Linux,
>>>>> ran vmware, booted inside vmware into my real /dev/hda1 Windows
>>>>> partition
>>>>> choosing the second hardware profile and waited for multiple  
>>>>> windows
>>>>> reboots to allow plug and pray to install all the drivers, etc  
>>>>> till
>>>>> windows worked.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have Windows install, only the image of the shipped  
>>>> Windows,
>>>> stripped down to the laptop hardware. That's how IBM sold it.
>>>
>>> Yes I understood that but surely the on-harddisk installation has  
>>> the full
>>> Windows drivers set on it?  If not that is really weird.  For  
>>> example what
>>> is meant to happen when you plug in a PCMCIA card and the driver  
>>> is no
>>> there?!?  Windows will presumably then ask you to insert the  
>>> windows cd
>>> which you were never given.  That is really crap of IBM if that  
>>> is really
>>> the case...  Normally windows installs contain _everything_ that  
>>> is on the
>>> Windows cd (drivers wise anyway) so no matter what hardware you  
>>> change you
>>> never need the windows cd to be inserted any more.  Certainly when I
>>> switched my windows from real pc to vmware I did not have to  
>>> insert the
>>> cd...  It was all there already.  Hence why I assume that the  
>>> same will
>>> work for you.  Or you can definitely complain to IBM and ask them to
>>> supply the missing drivers...
>>
>> Sorry for interfering here, but I think there's a little  
>> misunderstanding
>> between the two of you... Szaka seems to have a "customised"  
>> version of
>> Windows, that is crippled in a way that it is bound to certain  
>> aspects of the
>> laptop hardware (like for example the harddrive's serial number),  
>> so it's not
>> a matter of whether new drivers are actually available - Windows  
>> simply
>> refuses to install/operate on differing hardware. I know some  
>> redistributors
>> of Windows did that in Germany, so I'm guessing that this is what  
>> Szaka is
>> trying to tell you. If I got it wrong, take my apologies in advance.
>
> Really?!?  Ouch...  I would never buy from someone like that...  So  
> what
> are you meant to do when your laptop harddrive dies and you put in  
> a new
> one?  Buy a new version of windows to go with it?!?  Weird...

I wondered about the exact same thing (that's why I it was still  
stuck in brain, actually), but since I  stopped using Windows 2 years  
ago I never actually asked the companies what would happen in such a  
case

Best
Sebastian
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