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Skriven 2005-02-24 06:24:38 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
   Kommentar till text 2800 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
Ärende: I've had it!
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Hello JAY,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Friday January 28 2005 at 21:26,
    JAY EMRIE [1:123/140] wrote to GERALD MILLER,
    about: I've had it!

 GM>>>>>> Should I partition the 40GB into smaller disk drives?
 TW>>>>> While opinions Vary I see absolutly no reason to partition the 40
 TW>>>>> Gig drive.
 GM>>>> Thanks for the confirmation Tom. That appears to be the consensus
 GM>>>> of most everyone that has responded and it's likely how I will
 GM>>>> proceed.
 CA>>> You're making a mistake. Tom agreed with my logic that for ease of
 CA>>> making backup ISO image copies two partitions was a better idea.
 GM>> It wouldn't be the first time that I made a mistake and it will
 GM>> likely not be the last time that I make a mistake... <g>

Speaking of mistakes...  I've installed Win2K twice and it now looks as if
I will be doing it a third time -- I installed an application that became
corrupted and I had to uninstall it.  When I try to install it again, it
unpacks all the files from the archive and then just sits there.  I think
there is something in the registry and it will not install a second time.
I used RegCleaner a number of times with no success...

 GM>> In the event of a "catastrophic" failure of the HDD, I don't
 GM>> understand how having an ISO image copy on the second partition is
 GM>> going to help (or am I missing something obvious here?).  If the
 GM>> drive fails to boot, it's dead in the water and it's unlikely to
 GM>> see the second partition (oh, please tell me that I am in error
 GM>> here).

 GM>> I *_thought_* that one required a second HDD of equal capacity for
 GM>> the ISO image copy?

 JE> I think not necessarily equal, but large enough to hold the ISO image
 JE> copy.

I need to read up about ISO images, their purpose, etc.  Would you have a
URL or I guess I can try Google....

           Cheers ... Gerald

... Paranoia doesn't mean the whole world really isn't out to get you.
--- GoldED+/DPMI32 v1.1.5-040330 [msg of Thursday February 24 2005]
 * Origin: Toto, I don't think we're in DOS anymore... (1:342/512)