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    Someone I know just gave me a an IBM thinkpad to install Windows 98 on too. my question is that it had WinNT on it already and I heard that u could seriously screw up a laptop if you need to fdisk the hard drive and do a reinstall? Is there any turth to this?

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    Scott


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    try the ibm site, put it mod # and use fdisk as your search
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      Some older thinkpads used a special partition on the hard drive to store the bios image, instead of using flash ram. I think they changed that about three years ago, so if it's a relatively new laptop (it'd have to be to run 98 decently) you shouldn't have any trouble.

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