Re: Installed Hard Disk In Dell Vista Machine Today


"Jesus" <rustybucket666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f1aa7327-1331-413e-852a-2dc4fca6879b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Dec 31, 10:00 pm, "John" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Jesus" <rustybucket...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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> On Dec 31, 9:51 pm, "John" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Jesus" <rustybucket...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

>>news:0ff19c19-2ae9-44ac-afbe-329ae02ce782@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>> > On Dec 31, 9:24 pm, "John" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Worked most of the afternoon on installing a 750 Gb second harddisk >> >> in
>> >> my
>> >> Dell XPS 410 Vista system. It took about 20 minutes to install >> >> the
>> >> disk

>> > Well, that's genuine user error. Then again, you've misused that >> > term
>> > so much you've probably forgotten what it really means. :-)

>> Bull***. You have to take the machine off the desk and in my case
>> disconnect over 10 peripherals and take the cabinet apart and put it >> back
>> together. As usaul being a dumb*** YOU HAVEN"T actually done it on >> a
>> Dell
>> XPS 410 machine.

> Sure I haven't. You just take the side panel off. What peripherals
> do you have to disconnect? Dell cases have been designed so you don't
> have to disconnect anything for *years.*

>> > You are aware it should only take a minute or two tops to put a hard
>> > disk in a Dell PC, yes?

>> >> and FOUR FUCKING hours to format it.

>> > So you're telling me it takes an hour to do a full format on a 500GB
>> > drive using Windows but FOUR hours to do a full format on a 750GB
>> > disk? Something doesn't add up here...

>> What doesn't add up is that YOU NEVER DONE IT ON VISTA or you would >> KNOW
>> you
>> can't possibly do a full format on a 500Gb disk in an hour.

> Yup, OK. I'll go tell my computer to slow down now, just for you!

>> My machine is
>> one of the fastest.

> Too bad the same thing can't be said for you.

>> Vista disk activities are slower than XP dumbass.
>> (planned fix for SP1)

> ...right. I can get up to over 20MB/sec copy speeds with Vista on a
> *laptop* from the internal drive to an external USB drive. The
> thing's got a 1.6GHz Celeron. That doesn't sound very slow to me,
> especially considering the hardware.

Yet Microsoft is FIXING this problem which you say doesn't exist.

Then there must be a KB article about it. Link me.

I notice you have no response about your stupidity about opening your
own computer's case. That's pretty funny, don't you think? Oh,
right, you don't think. My mistake.

It took me 10 seconds to open my computers case.

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