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(?!?) You can choose to have the file download to wherever you want.



-- In 4EmulatorsandRoms@yahoogroups.com, Wclaring3 <wclaring3@...> wrote:
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> Ya but if I download a file to the computer it will automaticly go
to the
> file side & not the os or program side?
> Wclaring
>
>





Mon Dec 1, 2008 6:28 pm

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Okay I think I can handle that. Wclaring...
Wclaring3
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Dec 1, 2008
2:38 pm

(?!?) You can choose to have the file download to wherever you want. ... to the...
MO
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Dec 1, 2008
6:28 pm

Ok, a gig on a hard drive equals 1000000000 bytes, but the computer does not count by 1 2 3 4 5 6 method, it uses 1 and 0, so you have a binary method of...
Geoff Conn
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Nov 30, 2008
7:56 pm

Kinda but is a partitioned hard drive a good thing? Wclaring...
Wclaring3
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Dec 1, 2008
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Hey Dave, what's which the image of the dot attached to all your emails? ... From: Dave Schomburg To: 4EmulatorsandRoms@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday,...
Don Fielder
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Nov 30, 2008
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I think it's the dot that activates the Easter Egg in the Atari 2600 game Adventure. ... then chances are good it is a retail specific model. ... ...
MO
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Nov 30, 2008
8:45 pm

"Hey Dave, what's which the image of the dot attached to all your emails?" - I don't know?? I can't see it. Can someone copy it and send it to me? Love, Dave ...
Dave Schomburg
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Dec 1, 2008
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... From: Dave Schomburg <dave@...> Subject: RE: [4EmulatorsandRoms] Re: Just Wondering To: 4EmulatorsandRoms@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday,...
Raven Stormbringer
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Dec 1, 2008
6:11 pm

Ah, alright, cool. Thanks for clarifying that for me. Misinformed I am. _______________________________________________________ "I&#39;m a whale an endangered...
Jorge Bernal
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Dec 1, 2008
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Yeah. Say, for instance, that the windows install goes batty with a virus. Now you have to format the drive. All your files that are on the same drive as...
Geoff Conn
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Dec 1, 2008
5:41 am

How do you put the stuff on the other partition? Wclaring...
Wclaring3
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Dec 1, 2008
6:24 am

It should just show up as a seperate HD. C:/ for the main partition containing the OS and likely D:/ for the secondary If they did it as a safety...
Raven Stormbringer
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Dec 1, 2008
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So you don't use it. It uses it self? Wclaring...
Wclaring3
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Dec 1, 2008
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Paritition one would be the C:\ drive. The archive one would be D:\ usually. But can be any number thru Z. Its never A B or C because A and B are reserved for...
Geoff Conn
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Dec 1, 2008
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Okay sounds easy. Wclaring...
Wclaring3
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Dec 1, 2008
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Seeing as floppy drives are pretty much extinct (things have sure been heading that way), why couldn't A: or B: be used for USB drives (external, flash, etc.)...
MO
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Dec 1, 2008
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It's really no different from using the C-drive partition. You can just drag-and-drop files & folders to and from a partition just as if you were copying stuff...
MO
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Dec 1, 2008
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Most PC's that you buy from a retailer now have 2 partitions. One is the system partition, and the other is a restore partition. This eliminates the need to...
Don Fielder
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Dec 1, 2008
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I was thinking about this the other day in that if your HD crashes, the recovery and archive partitions would be lost as well? If you'll going to archive...
Tom
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Dec 2, 2008
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I don't know how to partition but there are programs out there for it. I want to know if I can shrink the one partition to incress the size of the other? ...
Wclaring3
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Dec 3, 2008
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Partitionmagic.com has your answer. It takes a while to work the moo-doo-boog-a-loo on the drives if you want to keep the current data, so make sure the power...
Geoff Conn
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To create a partition all you have to do is go into Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer management -> Storage -> Disk Management. But make sure...
Dave Schomburg
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Dec 3, 2008
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I've never used a system-recovery disc (yet (knock-on-wood)) to reinstall Windows (I assume you have that with your laptop instead of a full copy of Vista),...
MO
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Dec 3, 2008
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Recovery discs is old school nowadays considering all PC makers no longer package them along with their PC. Recovery partitions are great and convenient, but...
Tom
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Dec 3, 2008
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... Oh, believe you me, in the cases of both my HP desktop and my Compaq laptop, I burned the recovery disc sets for each the same day that I bought them. ;) ...
MO
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Dec 3, 2008
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Thanks For The Link! I'll go look. Wclaring ... From: Geoff Conn To: 4EmulatorsandRoms@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:43 PM Subject: Re:...
wclaring3
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Dec 4, 2008
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In the case of HP or Compaq, if you use the utility that is installed on them to create a set of recovery cd's or dvd's, when you reinstall from those cd's it...
Don Fielder
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Dec 4, 2008
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What if Tom replaced the hard drive in his laptop with a brand-new one? Would the HP Recovery utility still work? ... installed on...
MO
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Dec 4, 2008
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If you run the software directly from the recovery discs, it should be fine. From my own experience the discs are configured to set aside a percentage of the...
CJ
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Dec 5, 2008
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The new computer has a DVD drive and is going from the top to the bottom. I was just wondering if I can instead of standing the computer on it's bottom could I...
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