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> 
> > 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, as do almost all
techs when having to troubleshoot drive problems and windows problems, so ha
> 
> > 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, the guys who actually know what we're doing still use dos
> 
> > 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?
> 
> > 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
> 
> >>> 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

> 
> Your opinion is your problem.

your telling him what he thinks is wrong?  it's his opinion, if you want to
argue his facts go ahead, but his opinion is his, it can't be wrong

> 
> >>> And this did help me diagnose a bad drive earlier, when
> >>> my original drive developed a bad sector in the D: drive area.
> >>> Scandisk kept locking up at the same area, so maybe bad sector.
> >>> I copied the data files from it to E:, and formatted the drive, to
> >>> see if it was a physical defect.  Format locked up half way thru.
> 
> >> That aint the only way to decide if the hard drive has a problem.
> 
> > Yes, i could have used some other programs, which I did.
> 
> So it aint good reason for always having multiple partitons on the boot
> drive, particularly when that approach has other undesirable side effects.
> 
> > I imagine I could have brought it to a
> > wizard and have him cast a spell on it too.
> 
> Careful you dont go blind now.
> 
> > My point was formatting is the fastest and most
> > sure way to see if the drive has a bad sector.
> 
> Wrong.

i agree here, formatting isn't the best way to detect bad sectors, scandisk out
of dos is much better



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