Joe, I figured it out w/o commenting - maybe I'm physic! Before anybody jumps on me, that's how Archie Bunker said "psychic", if I recall, and I've done it ever since.
Anyway, don't worry about it. BTW, I have an 84MEGAbyte drive and an old AST 486 (orig 386sx) w/10MEG of RAM and both still work, though I don't really use 'em any more. Later, Steve in Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Sowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:21 AM Subject: Re: A sad story > Come on guys, cut me a break. Geeze, it was a typo okay? As far as I know > there has never been a 46 Mbyte drive. Both drives are Gbyte drives and > less than a year and a half old. > > Joe > =============================== > At 08:59 AM 11/22/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >do the math. You couldn't install windows on a 46mb drive. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Javier Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:20 AM > >Subject: RE: A sad story > > > > > > > Just curious, is this a 46 Mbyte or a 46 Gbyte drive? If it is a 46 > >Mbyte > > > drive, it has got to be over 10 years old. Also, I would strongly suggest > > > that you replace Window ME, it is universally considered to be the worst, > > > buggiest and most unreliable system ever produced by Microsoft. It was > > > originally designed for low end home computers, mostly for games and it > >did > > > not even do this well. My experience with ME as well as that of everyone I > > > know that attempted to use this system has been a nightmare. It lasted in > >my > > > son's computer for all of 3 days before I reloaded WIN 98. I had to do the > > > same thing for several friends that had attempted to upgrade to ME and > >most > > > of them did not even get the upgrade to complete; in fact, I can't think > >of > > > anyone that I know that uses this system. Just my very biased 2 cents. > > > > > > Javier Valencia, PE > > > President > > > Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. > > > 14315 S. Twilight Ln., Suite #14 > > > Olathe, KS 66062-4571 > > > (913)829-0888 > > > (913)649-2904 FAX > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > > Behalf Of Joe Sowers > > > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:41 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: A sad story > > > > > > Pay attention to the last part: > > > > > > I had an IBM 46 Mbyte drive bite the dust after just one year, along with > >a > > > lot of other people. Fortunately Hard Drives Northwest in Seattle was > > > able to save most of my data. They put it on a new Seagate 40 Mbyte drive > > > for me. After two days of restoring information this drive went bad. > >They > > > put they were able to save most of my data again and put it in a folder on > > > a new Seagate drive and installed a new IBM 46 Mbyte replacement drive as > >a > > > second drive. > > > > > > Here is the part to pay attention to. I put Roxio's Go Back software on > > > this drive. It is supposed to be a better restore facility than > > > Microsoft's included restore function. After another two days of > > > restoring, Go Back which puts a proprietary overlay over your partitions > > > and shows them as non-DOS, scrambled the data on both drives. HDNW, which > > > is very good at this, couldn't read the partitions had to reformat both > > > drives and reinstall the operating system (Windows ME) from scratch. > > > > > > Do not use Go Back under any circumstances!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > > > God loves a good backup, so I had almost everything on CD's or on my > > > portable, but it is going to take awhile. > > > > > > No sympathy cards please, but I had to bitch about my misfortune before > > > warning about Go Back. > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > ================================================ > > > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > > > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > > > ================================================ > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > > ================================================ > > > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > > > > ================================================ > > > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > > > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > > > ================================================ > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > > ================================================ > > > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > > > > >================================================ > >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > >================================================ > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > >================================================ > >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
