Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:11:33 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: renaming "Program Files" folder [LIB]
>Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 15:29:55 +0800
>From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>At 11:10 PM 8/03/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >>Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 13:40:26 +0800
> >>From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Subject: Re: renaming "Program Files" folder [LIB]
> >>
> >> ...I just get into the habit of treating partition conversions as a
>taboo subject ever since a number of my colleagues ruined their
>installations by doing so.<< <
> >Heh... I remember a while back your mentioning your aversion to using
>Partition Magic to make very many partition changes Raymond. You may have
>had a nervous breakdowns if you watched me messing around numerous times
>with my partitions on quite a few HDDs in the past couple of years, and
>really often these days on the 20GB HDD.< <
>I dare say I have used powerquest to resize the odd partition on this libby
>(after making real sure I could afford to lose the stuff on it) ...<
> > I was a bit scared of screwing up things in the beginning, but after
>one HUGE mess at the beginning, and having Powerquest walk me through the
>fix, I've become quite at home resizing, moving, deleting and copying
>partitions to make the operation of the system more functional. Ghost
>everything first, and all you can really loose is the HDD (which hasn't
>happened to me... hope I don't need to add 'yet' ;-P). And HDDs are so
>darned cheap (at least in terms of the US economy) and available... slap
>another in, Ghost back the partitions, and your back in the fast lane.< <
>Umm ... how can you damage the HDD using pmagic?<
I'm not quite sure just what part of the galaxy I was astral projecting to
when I wrote that Raymond... Maybe it was back to when I was fixing a
friend's desktop that had a huge collection of viruses on it. I don't think
I was using PM, but I did something like deleting partitions or reformatting
or something... and all of a sudden I had NO access to the HDD anymore. I
think it was Neil who suggested I see if the manufacturer had a HDD
diagnostic utility. Found that and ran it.... but it couldn't see the drive
either. I wondered if one or all of the viruses had somehow caused
mechanical failure, or my deleting partitions or reformatting or whatever it
was... though most people said that was impossible. But somehow that drive
went south AFTER it booted and was in the process of working fine.
Now if you ask, “>Umm ... how can you damage the HDD >DATA< using pmagic?”
... I’d have a nice list for you that probably conjures up visions of why
people report things like:
“...I just get into the habit of treating partition conversions as a
taboo subject ever since a number of my colleagues ruined their
installations by doing so.”
Sound familiar? ;-P
> >They said I was nuts getting invloved in childish pastimes like
>skateboarding and snurfing (the precursor to snowboarding) back in the
>early 70s... and laughed when I said people would be buying their music
>from a computer interface to a network... so I'm pretty used to people
>thinking I'm nuts!< <
>I still think anyone who buys music from a computer interfaced to a network
>is nuts but thats just me ... heh<
At some point ASCAP will wake up and find out that they can still make a
bigger killing at selling music online than they ever did at selling CDs,
cassettes, 8 track carts, LPs and everything else combined... WHILE huge
number of people trade tracks at the same time!
> >GO CROCK HUNTER!!
>OK you really ARE nuts. That guy is an idiot.
Thank you... Thank you… (Idiot proudly bows to appropriately stupefied and
horrified audience...)
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