PLEASE SUPPLY RELEVANT INFORMATION:Operating System Version: Windows 98
Problem Application Name & Version: FAT 32
Problem Hardware Make & Model: ThinkPad i Series, Model 1452
Error Messages:
I have a ThinkPad i Series, Model 1452 with two drives (C and D), which unbeknownst to me had a Norton Anti-Virus software pre-loaded when I bought it. When I installed McAfee AntiVius, I had nothing but problems. I assumed it was McAfee and uninstalled it and installed Norton Internet Security 2003 instead. Same problems. I finally decided to use my recovery disk and clean out the hard drive and remove all references to Norton and McAfee in the registry. After using the recovery disk, I noticed that Norton was there and it suddenly dawned on me that the reason no anti-virus software worked was that the laptop already had anti-virus loaded. When I uninstalled the anti-virus software that the recovery disk put there and reloaded Norton, all my problems went away.
When I began installing all my other software, some of it asked where I wanted to install it and, where given a choice, I indicated D. But a lot of it went to C without asking me with the result that C has almost no room left on it and D is still largely empty. After moving as much of it as I felt comfortable doing to D, C still only has 152 MB left, but D has 1.89 GB.
I though of switching to FAT 32 and when I tried, it indicated that D was already at FAT 32 and C which was at FAT 16 could not be switched because Norton was there and Norton could not get along with FAT 32. I do not know how it happened, but a substantial portion of Norton is in D which is already at FAT 32 and the rest of Norton is in C which is FAT 16. Norton seems to get along just fine in the FAT 32 environment of D, but the FAT 32 switching software will not let me change C to FAT 32.
The other thing I thought of doing was to compress my hard drive, but I did not know if you can compress a drive that is at FAT 32, or if you can compress one drive and not another, or if compression is a good idea at all.
The reason this if of concern is that since I did the recovery process and have tried to bring the laptop up to date with all the Microsoft patches and security devices, over which I have no control as to their location and it will probably be C, I still have to download the Microsoft update for Office which I know is very large and it may not fit into C which is probably where it will be deposited.
Any help will be appreciated.
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