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I have searched this problem with no luck re: my particular problem; any help will be appreciated.

Problem: getting message “There is not enough free space in the boot sector to install R&R.”

Situation: T60 with clean HD and Win XP Pro loaded from OS Disk [not recovery from factory install].

The HD was low-level formatted by DFT before installing WXP Pro. There are no partitions on the hard drive [all one partition].

Downloaded the R&R file from Lenovo and program starts to load and the InstallShield Wizard begins, but stops when it generates the above message.

Is there a way to increase the size of the boot sector, or is that the MBR which I assume I can’t touch?

You could probably increase the size of the boot sector with gparted, partition magic or similar programs. You would boot the CD to change partition sizes. There is always a little risk involved when doing this.

I'm skeptical about messing with the MBR - too much can go wrong.