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- Original Message -
From: "Mukesh Sharma"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] extremely severe problem, help please!
Hello,
If you plan to format a single partition, it is accessible and you can do
that easily but remember you can not format the master / OS partition
which is generally c:. Check disk management in control panel.
If you plan to format it completely, then you should take the help of some
sighted person though I know some blind geeks who do that on their own by
memorizing all the steps.
There are ways to install OS independently but not XP or Vista, one can
install Ubuntu, Knop etc of linux distro as the live CD can start Screen
reader.
Thanks
Mukesh
-Original Message-
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of samuel
rodrigues
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:47 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] extremely severe problem, help please!
Sure there is no way of any voices being running it, because
The hard disk will be formatted and everything will be cleanly wiped
out/washed out.
Secondly, no voices can run, because, you see, because the OS must
load and direct things how it must go.
So booting is important for that as well.
So TTS voices cannot run as well.
I Think I am right in this point, not perfectly sure though.
Regards
Samuel
On 8/18/09, Subramani L wrote:
Hai Amar:
The problem with explanations is that while it clarifies one thing, you
invariably get another doubt, which means at the end of the process you
would have a lengthy mail transcript. I hope you are ok with this, since
I
need further clarifications on your mail below.
1. If "Whide Space" saves all the deleted data, is there a way of
accessing
it? I have lost some important files from my PC, which, I gues, must have
got accidentally deleted. I would like to access them and that is why I
am
asking you this.
If I am formatting my system and want to install Windows 7 instead of
Windows XP which I am using currently, is this possible? Will my system
respond normally? Why do you say formatting must be done with sighted
help?
Does this mean there are no accessible way to do this --through some form
of
TTS based software?
Subramani
-Original Message-
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Amar Jain
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 8:55 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] extremely severe problem, help please!
Respected Subramani Sir the Great,
Fragmentation occurs when the operating system cannot or will not
allocate
enough contiguous space to store a complete file as a unit, but instead
puts
parts of it in gaps between other files (usually those gaps exist because
they formerly held a file that the operating system has subsequently
deleted
or because the operating system allocated excess space for the file in
the
first place). Larger files and greater numbers of files also contribute
to
fragmentation and consequent performance loss. Defragmentation attempts
to
alleviate these problems.
A defragmentation program must move files around within the free space
available to undo fragmentation. This is a memory intensive operation and
cannot be performed on a file system with no free space.
The above explaination was copied from one site. Now I will try to
explain
what does formatting means.
When we format our computer, our operating system gets deleted. Before we
can use any hard disk, we need to setup some basic structure like
partitions. Now when we format hard disk, we delete the operating system,
the temperary files, the unused registry keys and lot more things. When
we
use format, there are two options one is quick format and other is normal
format.
If we use quick format, the temperary files etc are not deleted. I always
recommend normal format.
With this, I will also talk about the term "wipe space". You must have
hurd
that even if you have deleted some file from computer, you can recover it
using data recovery softwares. Have you ever wondered why so?
Because there is one term "wipe space". It stores the information of
deleted
files etc. So if normal format is used, we delete that wipe space too. If
you are using CCleaner, then in advance options you must have seen a
check
box of clear wipe space. But it consumes lot of time.
Sir I am not a tech expert, but still sharing whatever I know. So please
excuse me for the errors.
I really don't know about the precautions to be taken while defragging.
For
defragmenting, please do as this:
Go to Start>All programs>Accesseries>System tools>Disk Defragmenter.
Select the drive to be defragmented from the list view, once analyze it,
and
then click on defragment button.
Formatting requires sighted assistance. Backup the data before
formatting.
Insert the win
