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Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message news:37C07159.BF9F18F1@snip.net...

>>> At the DOS prompt,

>> Hardly anyone uses the DOS prompt anymore. Dinosaur stuff.

> actually i use a dos prompt every single day, at least once,

Even you should be able to grasp that 'hardly
anyone' allows for a small number who do use it.

> as do almost all techs when having to troubleshoot
> drive problems and windows problems,

Even you should be able to grasp that they are a tiny subset
of the total Win users. Adequately covered by the 'hardly anyone'

And its completely juvenile to be hacking off the quoting where its
abundandly clear that what was being discussed there was furiously
bashing away at the DOS prompt on a working Win9x system, NOT whats
done with an unbootable system or say when installing a new hard drive.

> so ha

Pathetic really.

>>> I can go from a directory three levels deep on one
>>> drive, to a directory five levels deep on another drive.
>>> I can go back and forth just by typing the drive letter.

>> And its even easier with shortcuts etc. The world's moved on.

> not really,

Yep, really. Single mouse click in fact.

> the guys who actually know what we're doing still use dos

Pathetic really.

>>> With one drive, you have to continuously retype in
>>> the entire path for which directory you are going to.

>> No one with any sense types stuff like that anymore.

> you saying i have no sense?

If you are continuously retying the entire path
for which directory you are going to, yes.

There are plenty of obvious ways to avoid doing
that even if you are using the dos prompt.

>>> I have had to do this, don't ask why, I don't remember specificly, but this
>>> was a great benefit.  Sure, limited use of it, but better than the alternative.

>> Nope, not better than a single partition
>> with meaningful names and shortcuts etc.

> shortcuts don't work out of pure dos i'm afraid

They do actually, they call them bat files. Even
you should be able to work those out eventually.

>>>>> Two points, I have two hard drives, so there would be C: and D: anyway,

>>>> Yes, but at least the letters the partitions on the boot drive
>>>> get dont change if you remove the second hard drive.

>>> They don't anyway, there is no primary dos partition on my second hard disk.

>> Not always possible, most obviously with that hard drive upgrade
>> situation. When most dont have full backups anymore, its by far
>> the safest way to upgrade the boot drive to a bigger one.

> easily possible.  i get second hard drive with pri dos partition on it, i copy
> all of the stuff to my original hard drive, fdisk it, make an extended partition
> and logical drives, copy it back and presto, drive letters back to normal

Not always possible when the original drive has bugger all free
space on it and thats why you are adding the second hard drive.

Keep digging.

>> Your opinion is your problem.

> your telling him what he thinks is wrong?

Nope, I was clearly telling him that his opinion is his problem.

> it's his opinion,

Its also his problem.

> if you want to argue his facts go ahead, but his opinion is his, it can't be wrong

I never said it was wrong, just that it was his problem. At least TRY to keep up.