Re: Bad sectors... how bad?


"Pdigmking" <paugle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> David Maynard <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:11pd1hf6r4923da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>
> >
> > No, you don't. Just load SP2, which includes all updates prior to
> > SP2's release, and then the remaining post SP2 updates after that.
> >
> > And since your CD is apparently pre-SP2 you should download the
> > 'redistribution' version (huge file) and keep it on CD so you don't
> > have to redownload if you need to install XP again (or make yourself
> > an SP2 slip streamed XP CD).
> >
>
> I guess I should be more precise. When I say I run all the upgrades, I'm
> only talking about the disks, I don't have to laod 98, then downlaod the
> upgrades for that... then load XP.. download those... and so on.
>
> Someone said that I don't have to load the previous versions, this is
> just not true. Believe me, I've tried. The only original load OS disk I
> have is a Win 95. All the others are upgrade disks, and they won't work
> unless the previous version is installed. They look for previous
> versions, and if they don't see it, they won't load. I tried loading SP2
> but it looked for an existing XP and wouldn't load.
>
> As long as I'm on the subject this is one of my biggest complaints about
> MS. First hey sell you a defective OS's for $75-$100 (by defective I
> mean full of security holes, instability etc.). Then, they start selling
> updgrades devective upgrades for the same price. They want $200.00 for a
> non upgrade program disk. You pay $100.00 for the upgrade, it's
> defective so you have to download patches the day you load it. If you
> started all this (like I did) back with DOS, you've spent $600.00 just to
> have an operating system (to be fair, DOS and win 3.11 were very stable).
> You pay $100 for an upgrade, and then you have to go out get the patches
> for it, this is no small inconvenience. When I built my mother in laws
> machine, it literally ten hour to get the OS loaded because she has a
> dial up connection. Sure, the patches are free, but if you don't have
> high speed internet your looking at hours of downlaod time. Yes I know
> you can have the upgrades run in the background but my mother in law was
> leaving for Panama in two days and I wanted to have as patched up as
> possible before she left because I have no idea what kind of ISP and
> internet environment she'll have to deal with down there.
>
> Then comes along this lame antitrust settlement that allows MS to
> continue to sell defective OS's followed by upgrades. Here's what I
> would have liked to see:
>
> No more upgrade only CDs. Every CD should be a complete OS CD with
> upgrade options. I think the only difference between the $200 XP disk
> and the $100 upgrade is that the upgrade looks for previous installs.
>
> No MS OS should cost more than $100 from now on.
>
> MS should be required to release patches, in CD form, for free, every six
> months. No one with a dial up should have to sit around for six hours
> with a vulnerable OS waiting for all the patches to download and install
> on your brand new $100 operating system! The background option is fine
> for weekly maintaince, but after six months, your usually looking
> multiple and large patches and program updates.
>
> That's what I say!
>
> Paul.

I am having brain fade at the moment, I installed XP without an OS on the
drive, installed from a upgrade disk. Started the install then it verified
by putting the ME disk in the drive, I didn't INSTALL 'me' first. Installing
95 on a newer system must be a bitch.


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