I have ME on one computer and have not upgraded it because my wife has come to fear upgrades.
It is truly buggy, Norton SystemWorks has made it happy most of the time. --Dennis McGrath -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Javier Valencia Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
