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From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:50 AM
Subject: RE: [H] Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
Still I would much rather boot a BartPe or XpPe disk CD that remove the HD
& put it into another machine. I tried booting the new Knoppix 5 DVD on a
2700+ machine & I thought that would never boot up but it did eventually.
I know my shop computer is a P4 2.53 GHz with a gig of RAM (If I had felt
memory starved I would have doubled that as I did in my office computer) and
it has no major issues. I trust it lots more than I trust a customer's
computer. I tried one of those homemade boot Windows XP operating systems.
That thing took a long time to boot up. It had to copy all of that stuff
from the CD into RAM which I guess is the reason it was slow to boot. In a
normal boot, my shop computer simply copies the needed data from the hard
drive into the 1024 MB of RAM.
I simply tell people what is more comfortable for me. I realize they are
going to continue to do what they feel best with. My purpose is not to get
them to change as what y'all do has no affect on the success of my business.
I believe that the more opinions and the more information a person has to
work with, the more informed decisions they can make. My guess is very few
computer shops work with workhorse shop computers. The computer shop I got
trained in was so cheap they refused to replace the one old 13" CRT monitor
that was defective, cutting off while in use etc. It was difficult to get a
dedicated 3 to 4 feet of bench space! A second workstation would have been
totally out of the question. Now I have 8 feet on one bench and 6 feet on
another plus my office space.
Chuck
Chuck
