do the math. You couldn't install windows on a 46mb drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Javier Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:20 AM Subject: RE: A sad story
> Just curious, is this a 46 Mbyte or a 46 Gbyte drive? If it is a 46 Mbyte > drive, it has got to be over 10 years old. Also, I would strongly suggest > that you replace Window ME, it is universally considered to be the worst, > buggiest and most unreliable system ever produced by Microsoft. It was > originally designed for low end home computers, mostly for games and it did > not even do this well. My experience with ME as well as that of everyone I > know that attempted to use this system has been a nightmare. It lasted in my > son's computer for all of 3 days before I reloaded WIN 98. I had to do the > same thing for several friends that had attempted to upgrade to ME and most > of them did not even get the upgrade to complete; in fact, I can't think of > anyone that I know that uses this system. Just my very biased 2 cents. > > Javier Valencia, PE > President > Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. > 14315 S. Twilight Ln., Suite #14 > Olathe, KS 66062-4571 > (913)829-0888 > (913)649-2904 FAX > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Joe Sowers > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A sad story > > Pay attention to the last part: > > I had an IBM 46 Mbyte drive bite the dust after just one year, along with a > lot of other people. Fortunately Hard Drives Northwest in Seattle was > able to save most of my data. They put it on a new Seagate 40 Mbyte drive > for me. After two days of restoring information this drive went bad. They > put they were able to save most of my data again and put it in a folder on > a new Seagate drive and installed a new IBM 46 Mbyte replacement drive as a > second drive. > > Here is the part to pay attention to. I put Roxio's Go Back software on > this drive. It is supposed to be a better restore facility than > Microsoft's included restore function. After another two days of > restoring, Go Back which puts a proprietary overlay over your partitions > and shows them as non-DOS, scrambled the data on both drives. HDNW, which > is very good at this, couldn't read the partitions had to reformat both > drives and reinstall the operating system (Windows ME) from scratch. > > Do not use Go Back under any circumstances!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > God loves a good backup, so I had almost everything on CD's or on my > portable, but it is going to take awhile. > > No sympathy cards please, but I had to bitch about my misfortune before > warning about Go Back. > > Joe > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
