i1400 from a different angle

[Weanuts]

Can someone please tell if I were to strip harddrive of all (format) and use fdisk to combine partitions as 1 (C) reinstall WIN98 SE, can I expect battery meter to operate? Can I aquire software off of net if I loose meter to get it up and running again, or can I still purchase an IBM-Lenova disk to bring it back to stock, and, or do I necessarily want last option, or need it? Last post along these lines was here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=209347

thanks in advance

[AlphaKilo470]

What, exactly, is wrong with the battery meter? I remember that on the 380 series of laptops, the battery meter was crippled by IBM to only report 0%, 10%, 80% and 100%. I'm not sure if this is the case with your i1400 though hence my asking about the exact issue.

[Weanuts]

AlphaKilo470, The problem I am having is with Norton Anti Virus not sleep manager. I would like to have use of sleep manager but I felt with no decent backup disks, I wouldn't be able to have access to sleep manager. I was going to format drives and fdisk into one partition and reinstall MY Win98SE. I wish you could help me with disabling and turfing Norton Anti Virus. I have tried to remove from ctrl panel-add rem software- Norton but there are some files missing and havnt had any luck removing it Tried to disable Norton under run-msconfig-start while in safe mode, but it just will not leave. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.

thanks for your reply

[tfflivemb2]

Try this to remove Norton.

[Weanuts]

Thank you very much for your suggestions. The rnav file from another download site worked. Appreciate that, but, although NAV is out I still can't do an orderly shut down. Start-Shutdown, or Restart, Restart in MsDos mode, do not work. Any more suggetions would be greatly appreciated .