Subj : F-86 AND I.
To   : Wayne Chirnside
From : Howie Coombe
Date : Fri Feb 04 2005 05:42 pm

Dear Wayne, in regards to this message to Me.

 > -> > I've just had really bad experience with Windows O.S. software.

 > -> You have my commiserations, what happened?.

 >  Followed some advice that went against my intuition.


You should never go against your intuition when it comes to Windows, or 
anything, exept fire, particularly when you are as computer litterate as you 
are.

 > Win 98 F.E. fdisk wrapped the drive so it overwrote the first sector 0.


Aha.

 > This release of fdisk doesn't work above 64 Gig and my drive was one Gig     
> too far.


Damn.

 > In 90 days I'll have another hard drive and aftermarked BIOS'ed I/O card     
> that supports ATAPI CD drives.


Congratulations and best of luck with that.

 > -> > I'm going pure Linux!!!

 > -> That is probably a wise move.

 >  Yeah I'm tired of all the attendent problems.


As you would be.

 > However this topic must be taken elsewhere as we'll soon get moderated here  
> for being off topic.


Well, I have not been moderated on this echo for anything and i dont know of 
any other echo that you and i can both access but OK.

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