On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:53:28 Alex Schuster wrote:
> J. Roeleveld writes:
> > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote:
> > > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces
> > > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is
> > > just visiting
J. Roeleveld writes:
> On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote:
> > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces
> > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is
> > just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it
> > up to
J. Roeleveld writes:
> On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote:
> > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces
> > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is
> > just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it
> > up to
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote:
> Adam Carter wrote:
> > > One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE.
> >
> > Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would
> > 1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully
> >
On Monday 15 November 2010 18:07:27 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:10 on Monday 15 November 2010, J.
> Roeleveld
>
> did opine thusly:
> >
> > How is this different from:
> > 1) take a backup
> > 2) check for bad sectors (badblocks)
> > 3) restore backup
> >
> > Thi
Stroller wrote:
On 15/11/2010, at 11:36pm, Dale wrote:
... I don't have the OS media to reinstall.
Because it is kids, they don't want to buy the OS.
Assuming the laptop has an OEM Windows license sticker on the underside, it is
not necessary to buy a new o/s disk.
Any st
On 15/11/2010, at 11:36pm, Dale wrote:
>>> ... I don't have the OS media to reinstall.
> Because it is kids, they don't want to buy the OS.
Assuming the laptop has an OEM Windows license sticker on the underside, it is
not necessary to buy a new o/s disk.
Any standard Microsoft XP OEM CD [1] w
>
> For a Linux list, I sure am getting a lot of good ideas on windoze. O_O
>
I'm sure there's many people on this list that have to support relatives
broken PCs ^_^
For me, i have Vista (OEM, came with the laptop) running in a VMware virtual
machine for iTunes (dont get me started on that POS)
Adam Carter wrote:
> One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE.
Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would
1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully
security updated windows box.
2. From that box run chkdsk -> full
> > One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE.
>
Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would
1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully security
updated windows box.
2. From that box run chkdsk -> full virus scan -> defrag
3.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:01 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Dale
>> did
>> opine thusly:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> OK. I took a nap and it seems everyone on the list wanted to chime in.
>>> lol This is one reason I posted here.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:01 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Dale did
opine thusly:
OK. I took a nap and it seems everyone on the list wanted to chime in.
lol This is one reason I posted here. I knew I would get at least a
few replies. Just picking one to repl
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:01 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Dale did
opine thusly:
> OK. I took a nap and it seems everyone on the list wanted to chime in.
> lol This is one reason I posted here. I knew I would get at least a
> few replies. Just picking one to reply to so not pointi
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:43 on Monday 15 November 2010, Mike
Edenfield did opine thusly:
On 11/15/2010 11:05 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
It's LGPL licensed. The GUI is a bit ugly but it has a lot of
functionality and can handle cases in which the Windows
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:43 on Monday 15 November 2010, Mike
Edenfield did opine thusly:
> On 11/15/2010 11:05 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > It's LGPL licensed. The GUI is a bit ugly but it has a lot of
> > functionality and can handle cases in which the Windows defragger
> > doesn't w
- Original Message
> From: Mike Edenfield
> On 11/15/2010 11:05 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > It's LGPL licensed. The GUI is a bit ugly but it has a lot of
> > functionality and can handle cases in which the Windows defragger
> > doesn't work. That mostly happens when the disk is nea
On 11/15/2010 11:05 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> It's LGPL licensed. The GUI is a bit ugly but it has a lot of
> functionality and can handle cases in which the Windows defragger
> doesn't work. That mostly happens when the disk is nearly full.
Since we're *way* off topic as it is:
mydefrag isn'
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:10 on Monday 15 November 2010, J. Roeleveld
did opine thusly:
> On Monday 15 November 2010 15:50:37 Jacob Todd wrote:
> > Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably
> > fix it.
>
> I don't see what Spinrite can do to help with defra
Am 15.11.2010 04:56, schrieb Dale:
> Hi,
>
> I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on
> it. I want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze
> won't work. Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze? I ask
> because I don't want to insta
On 15 November 2010 14:50, Jacob Todd wrote:
> Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix
> it.
If the drive had badblocks it would probably launch chkdsk or bring up
similar errors about a corrupt fs.
As I said, without a clear and succinct error message we're s
- Original Message
> From: Dale
> I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on it.
> I
>want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze won't work.
>
>Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze? I ask because I don't
>want t
On Monday 15 November 2010 15:50:37 Jacob Todd wrote:
> Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix
> it.
I don't see what Spinrite can do to help with defragging a harddrive for MS
Windows?
I like the bit where it explains "how it prevents a disk crash":
"It fir
Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix
it.
On Nov 15, 2010 9:16 AM, "Mick" wrote:
> On 15 November 2010 13:13, Jacob Todd wrote:
>> You might want to run spinrite on the drive if you have/can find a copy
of
>> it.
>
> Why?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
On 15 November 2010 13:13, Jacob Todd wrote:
> You might want to run spinrite on the drive if you have/can find a copy of
> it.
Why?
--
Regards,
Mick
You might want to run spinrite on the drive if you have/can find a copy of
it.
On Nov 15, 2010 4:33 AM, "Dale" wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
>> On 15/11/2010, at 3:56am, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on
it. I want to defrag the hard drive
On 15 November 2010 09:46, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> My guess for the error: "There is insufficient diskspace to defragment this
> drive"
> Solution: Copy documents over onto an external drive
> Then delete the copied documents from the harddrive and then run defrag.
It would be easier to suggest so
On Monday 15 November 2010 12:01:49 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2010 09:46:38 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > I ... only use MS Windows when I have no choice (eg. using MS Windows
> > only software/applications for work).
>
> The one use I have for it nowadays is to run IE to check how i
On Monday 15 November 2010 09:46:38 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> I ... only use MS Windows when I have no choice (eg. using MS Windows
> only software/applications for work).
The one use I have for it nowadays is to run IE to check how it displays
my website. I found (was told of) a utility that emulat
On Monday 15 November 2010 10:32:00 Dale wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
> > On 15/11/2010, at 3:56am, Dale wrote:
> >> ...
> I am thinking like you on the reason it is not working. It was brought
> to me because it was not running as fast as it used to. First thing I
> noticed was that AVG hasn't b
Stroller wrote:
On 15/11/2010, at 3:56am, Dale wrote:
...
I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on it. I
want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze won't work.
Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze?
I would be mor
On 15/11/2010, at 3:56am, Dale wrote:
> ...
> I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on it.
> I want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze won't
> work. Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze?
I would be more concerned why defr
Jacob Todd wrote:
Defraggler. Ccleaner by the same company is also nice.
That is one I ran across with google. It appears it can run from the OS
itself. Is it capable of running from within the OS it is defragging?
Way back when, defraggers had to be run from either another drive or
so
Defraggler. Ccleaner by the same company is also nice.
Hi,
I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on
it. I want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze
won't work. Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze? I ask
because I don't want to install something and not know what I am
instal
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