Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:00:51 -0800 From: "Renita Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: renaming "Program Files" folder [LIB]
SNURFING! I remember that. A plywood board with (or without, if you were really crazed) on the nose, straight edges...You could KILL yourself really easily. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: renaming "Program Files" folder [LIB] > 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...) > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives > http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. 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