[GLLUG] the battery-less laptop

[Brian Craft]

pedro wald wrote:
> I tend to think that the battery works as a filter of the power coming from the power outlet, and also as a real UPS (not a passive UPS) the ones in which the power always come primarily from the battery (from power outlet to the battery and from the battery to the computer). But I am not quite sure if such rationale is correct,an oversimplification and/or if it is valid for all makers, models and generations. If so, the use of a battery-less notebook could reduce the life span of the notebook  or make it more susceptible to spontaneous reboots, etc.. Would anyone have any input in that matter?
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> I just bought a notebook (that happens to come with WindowsXP). I need to repartition it in a non-destructive way (without having to begin from scratch). Has anyone done it before with NTFS 5.x? Has it gone smoothly?
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> Regards,
> Pedro Wald
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I just did that............repartitioned Windows XP on a laptop I got my 
wife for Christmas and I used  SystemRescueCd ( 
http://www.sysresccd.org/ ) which has the QtParted application on it. 
It is a Partition Magic clone for Linux and it worked great.  If you 
download the iso and burn it to a cd, just bootup from the CD and run 
QtParted.   The iso image is 110MB ......not too bad.



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