Re: Windows help

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 02:50 PM 1/13/03 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:

From: "Andrew Crystall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Windows help
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:36:25 -0000

On 12 Jan 2003 at 15:53, Richard Baker wrote:

> Alberto said:
>
> > In other words, Format & Reinstall.
>
> A plan whose only flaw is that Packard Bell neglected to provide her
> with a CD, instead providing a "recovery partition" on the hard-disc.
> Yes, the same hard-disc that's been trashed by the virus. In any case,
> we took it to PC World and they're going to see what they can recover
> and are then going to format and reinstall.
>
> Rich
> GCU Unbounded Stupidity

Yes, it's stupid both on the part of Packard Bell (given the fact
that "recovery paritions" are both unhelpful and legally VERY dubious
(recovery CD's are just as annoying but on better legal grounds...),
on the part of PC World for selling it and on the part of the buyer
for not consulting a techie friend on what TO buy.

*mutters*

The **** things give me lots of tech work, mind you.

At least you need never worry about going hungry . . .

Andy
Dawn Falcon

After years of hearing hard drive crash horror stories, I have decided that every hardware company should:

a) print "BACKUP!!!" in big letters all over their towers and keyboards, and come up with some cool wallpaper in a "BACKUP!!!" motif as a reminder.

b) Set up their systems so that they will force the user to backup, say, once a month. Very advanced users would be able to turn this function off.
Novices wouldn't.

So, would you mandate the inclusion of a tape drive on every machine? A CD-R only holds 600-700MB, which means it would take a lot of CDs and a long time to do a full backup of a contemporary 100GB drive.

(Don't even joke about doing it on Zip disk or floppy . . .)

And what about those times when you have to reinstall Windows repeatedly before it will finally accept the backup of your old system files rather than wanting to start out with a clean slate? (BT, DT, obviously.)



--Ronn! :)

I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle


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