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William B. Lurie Nov 28 2004, 2:22 pm show options
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:22:21 -0500
Local: Sun, Nov 28 2004 2:22 pm
Subject: Re: Bad Sectors - Now Warning from XP!
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Sort of bearing on this same subject, I'd extend it a bit, to ask why,
since XP 'knows' there are bad sectors, and is really wonderfully
smart, couldn't it just go ahead and fix them?
Personally, I'm a little old-fashioned. It was less than 20
years ago that, when you bought a PC, a hard-disk drive was
an expensive 'optional extra'.... and I finally sprung for one.
It had a capacity of TEN MEGABYTES! Today's ubiquitous drives have
a thousand times as much storage, and more. But I'm awfully nervous
about the actual reliability of these monsters. Statistically, it
doesn't take much of an imperfection to turn into 'bad sectors'.
Bill Lurie
Looks like you are telling as how you bought a 10 meg hard disk somewhat
less than 20 years ago for your computer(10 meg hard drives were around about
the mid 80's).
Hell man! Most people progress in their knowledge as they move forward.
Looking at the caliber of your posts, and the display of your computer acumen
- you have not moved forward one iota in the last 20 years.
Falcon
"billurie@nospam.org" wrote:
> Hey, wise-ass. It's there of course...and well hidden. For the same
> effort as posting a snotty remark, you could have tried to be helpful.
> Or didn't that occur to your 77 I.Q. brain?
>
> Falcon wrote:
> > It has only been on your computer since the day you loaded Windows XP. Don't
> > you know ANYTHING about your computer. Look for it!!!
> >
> > Or, maybe your mind is just burned out due to bad drugs when you were younger.
> >
> > God - what a dope!
> >
> > "billurie@nospam.org" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The newsgroup I've been seeking is not available
> >>from my usual newsgroup server (Mozilla). I have used Internet
> >>Explorer occasionally (sorry) but never OE. The OE
> >>home page has very copious branches to go to, but I
> >>didn't see one that would lead me to Outlook Express.
> >>Maybe when I get there I'll fall in love with it, but
> >>for now I'd be happy just to be led to it.
> >>
> >>I tried search for OE but it told me I could get OE by
> >>downloading IE....but I already have IE 6.0 and an
> >>icon for it. So please start me there, and thank you.
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >> William B. Lurie
> >>
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> William B. Lurie
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