> You really can't blame MS or Uncle Bill if you > don't bother with what is on your PC (XP I presume). OK, hands up, I didn't know about this Manage utility (and it's great now I do). But I had been along the FDISK and FORMAT path which was a much clumsier way of doing it.
After all that, it seems the disk is faulty and has been returned, since another disk was successfully formatted. > This is OK first time, but if you ever want to > change or resize partitions Windows is > destructive of all data, much better is > PowerQuest's Magic, moves the data as it works. Yes, someone else told me about this. > While you are venting your spleen at Seattle, > think a little deeper, how could you afford to > buy such a large HDD ? How come I was offered > 1Gig RAM for £50 yesterday - the half meg > Expanderram I got in 1980 cost £70 ! ! ! ! > The reason is Gates ever larger operating systems > have created the market for hardware thet bulk > production has brought the price crashing down. I'm nowhere near as mad with Windows or PCs now as I was a few years ago. It just seems that the greater complexity of PCs makes it harder to sort out problems like this. Anyway, it turned out to be a faulty drive in the end. > No I am not an out and out lover of MS, but > credit where it is due, and gratitude. Many people say that - not great lovers of PCs, but accept what Bill & Co have done is mostly good even if you dislike market dominance generally. >>(that way Windoze can do what it likes with the C:\ drive.) > > Now there I think you are right, I look on it as > Bill's sandpit, let him play there and create and > create his defrag-needing mess in one place. ;-)) -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
