On Tue, December 27, 2005 13:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do not need a source if a virus expands to the ends of the hard drive
Umm, yes you do need a source to make such claims, especially when they are false. > and all > of the sectors are full meaning the drive is taken up and as we all know > ,what > windows expands what do you think is going to happen you are going to What do I think will happen? I think I'll have a copy of windows that is yelling about drive $FOO being out of disk space and acting wonky until I correct the issue. I think I'll have a full hard drive that needs to be partitioned and/or reformatted. > develop > bad sectors and your drive will what eventually fail. I had this happen on Sure, any drive will eventually fail, but not due to a virus. > several ibm machines were the virus ruined the drive as a result of taking > all > the sectors filling it to 100 percent capacity. So the source, is the > machine > worked 100 percent, the virus entered and upon re install of windows or > trying > to re install windows. The machine failed, when checked it was full of bad > sectors so their is your source experience. Argument done last post on > this > issue. There has been *one* windows-based virus that attempted to over write the BIOS in x86 machines (CIH for those who may be interested, released sometime in 1998), but that's not hardware damage, as the chip can be reflashed. Sorry, your 'source' doesn't support your claim. If it was a virus, which one was it? I can't imagine that there was a virus on a network (since you did say the system had windows reinstalled and it was reinfedcted) and some anti-virus software didn't start screaming about it. You don't know if the drive in question was bad or not. It's quite possible that it was a new drive that had a bad part and it just happened to give out. Your 'example' is the same as saying that a huge p0rn file was placed on the drive, which filled it up. After clearing the drive, bad sectors were found. Therefore, using your logic, we can say that p0rn will damage hardware. After all, the drive was OK until it was filled by that big dirty picture file. So again, cite your source. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:g-list@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
