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Article #203Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode
From: Todd
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:00
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Rod Speed wrote in message ... > >Tom MacIntyre <tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:37bc1252.211235669@news1.ns.sympatico.ca... >> Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote: > >>>>>>> it makes it easier to trouble shoot, reformatting >>>>>>> and installing windows becomes easier, > >>>>>> I'm not convinced. With the apps on the second >>>>>> partition, you'll have to uninstall them and reinstall >>>>>> them again if you reformat the C drive and reinstall Win. > >>>>> A reinstall-over is all that is usually necessary >>>>> when Windows is fully refreshed... > >>>> Nope, a clean reinstall on a freshly formatted partition often >>>> produces a much cleaner and more stable install. Specially if >>>> there has been much installing and uninstalling of apps to try them. > >>> he's saying that after you reinstall windows clean, you reinstall the >>> apps over them selves to refresh the registry and any dll's that might >>> need to be in windows\system, not installing windows over itself > >> Yes, that's what I meant... > >Still no advantage over a single partition boot drive on that app install >stuff. With a major downside of the drive letters changing if you add >another hard drive with a primary dos partition on it as a backup >destination or just when upgrading to a new larger boot drive etc. > > > With as much time as you spent on this being a moron, you could have installed and partitioned 20 HD's already.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f42b5,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf42b5,public X-Google-Thread: 100597,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid100597,public X-Google-Thread: 1070cf,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070cf,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: fde9e,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfde9e,public X-Google-Thread: 1020d9,5f6974e49456f2b4 X-Google-Attributes: gid1020d9,public From: "Todd" <Post_to_group_only@nospam.com> Subject: Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode Date: 1999/08/20 Message-ID: <rrqcaokhboh43@corp.supernews.com> X-Deja-AN: 515063505 References: <7pa1p4$32i$1@ffx2nh5.news.uu.net> <ET5u3.3532$O_1.20832@ozemail.com.au> <37B8FA7A.63CBEE72@snip.net> <fgbu3.3733$O_1.21412@ozemail.com.au> <37B9FF4E.32F52290@snip.net> <H8pu3.4139$O_1.25453@ozemail.com.au> <37ba882b.110318232@news1.ns.sympatico.ca> <jewu3.4358$O_1.26732@ozemail.com.au> <37BB908C.855BF641@snip.net> <37bc1252.211235669@news1.ns.sympatico.ca> <je_u3.5109$O_1.34772@ozemail.com.au> Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Newsgroups: alt.certification.mcse,alt.computer,alt.os.windows95,alt.windows95,alt.windows98,aus.computers X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com