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Guy Fawkes <guy.fawkes@error404.surfbaud.co.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:32:16 +0000, rwatson@pwdltd.co.uk (Richard
> Watson) wrote:
> 
> 
> >>because you aren't thinking, what proportion of new PC's have more
> >>than one hard disk?
> >
> >Never heard of "partitioning". Clearly not. Let me explain. It's a tried
> >and tested method of organising one's data based on sound principles and
> >used by many [good] operating systems. It involves creating seperate areas
> >on one drive which can be accessed/formated whatever irrespective of each
> >other.
> >
> >An award winning piece of windows software seems to be called Partition
> >Magic. I'm surprised that you haven't heard of it.
> 
> 
> irony is only acceptable if supported by sufficient wit.......
> 
> since _when_ has PM been a part of the operating system.......
> 
> it isn't even good bloody practice...

You've never heard of fdisk? There's more than one way to make a partition.

I can't believe you are really that dim. I think you must be trying
very hard or pulling my leg

1) I said that it was madness to attempt to do everything on one partition
2) You said "how many machines arrive more than one *hard disk*"
3) I pointed out that such things as partitions exist citing partition magic
as a famous (or infamous program) with the name partition in it (personally
I've never used it.)

When has DOS/windows ever even considered using partitions to its advantage???

What we are talking about is one downside of windows. I'm prepared to speak up
for it in part (I like the fact that I can play games on it that's why I read
windows newsgroups sometimes).

The failures in win9X are a serious issue for all us users of win9X. As
someone who is also a linux/unix user (as are a good few on this group) I can
see the benefits of a more robust OS. 

One of these benefits happens to be the way that *by default* it allows
the user to specify different partitions at install for the different
components of the OS. This is without doubt the best way to manage information
on a drive. Or do you have a better way?

I'm sure that you must be very good at running windows if it's so easy for you
to get a stable setup. Maybe you have a rare gift. Out of all the people I know 
no-one who has actually tried to do much with their windows pc has avoided it
hanging on them at some point. Linux has *never* hung on me. When you consider 
that it is really an OS put together by enthusiasts (although based on unix)
that is a tremendous achievement. The fact that it does everything I want
it to (and now even has some pretty good games) means that it's more and more 
becoming just the OS that I want.

I'm sorry if you're unable to see what you might be missing. Maybe you're afraid
of the change. But you've missed the entire point of this discussion so many 
times that it leaves me thinking that you're just basically someone who hangs 
around newsgroups trying to wind people up.

Regards,

-- 
Richard Watson
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