Re: Rockwell - "but what about Godwin's"

D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 9/16/09 21:37 , J. Clarke wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 9/16/09 19:01 , J. Clarke wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 9/16/09 16:33 , J. Clarke wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 9/16/09 15:27 , Me wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 9/16/09 11:36 , DG wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:

On 9/16/09 11:06 , DG wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:

I dropped a fresh 1.5TB into my Mac and it found and
formatted the drive in a few minutes.

The primary difference between Windows and Mac, in this
process, is, the tools for adding, switching, modifying a
drive are all built-in to the O/S on a Mac. Under most
Windows systems they require third party, and often
proprietary, software.


No.

Right click my computer> Manage> Storage... etc.

No third party software required.


I did say 'most.'


Maybe I'm ignorant but which MSFT OS requires third party
software to format a hard drive?



Ah..I see the confusion. I wasn't referring to simple
formatting, as much as I was about cloning a drive for
replacement or transferring contents to a new drive.

You can format a drive from the early DOS days without
additional software.

But if you want to transfer contents to a new drive, add,
delete or modify a partition, you need a third party
application under Windows, whereas the Mac O/S has the
utiltities for this built in.

Windows|Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Computer
Management|Disk Management
Those utilities are built in to Windows since XP (IIRC), with a
reasonably straight-forward GUI. I suppose there aren't options
to format (or work on) other than MS filesystems
FAT/FAT32/NTFS, but you can add/delete/shrink/extend and
format partitions. I think the tools are still there even with
"basic" versions of the OS.



Let me know when you've increased/or shrank a partition on
the boot drive.

It's 9 clicks from the desktop.


Actually, it's not.

From the Help Menu: "You can't extend the boot partition."

From the desktop, nine clicks, wait a moment, and the boot
partition is smaller. Whatever help you are looking at is in
error.

Other partitions, yes. The boot partition, no. To extend, or
modify the boot partition, requires a third party app.

Under OS X, you can increase, decrease, the boot partition
with the utility built into the O/S.


From what help menu?

Windows won't do it without a third party app.

Maybe true for some antiquated version but certainly isn't for
Vista.



The discussion wasn't about Vista. But thank you for your
input.

Vista is the current version of Windows. It does what you claim
that Windows can't do. If you mean that some obsolete version
can't do it then you need to say so.




The discussion wasn't about Vista. It was about XP. Re-read the
thread for clarification.


And for the third time, I said "MOST" versions of Windows.


Clear now?

Yeah, clear that yet another ignorant advocate of this or that gets
caught with his pants down lying and instead of admitting he was
wrong he blusters away about how the discussion was of an obsolete
version of Windows.

If you are going to talk specfically about XP you need to call it
that.



If you were paying attention, you would have clear at the outset.
This is what happens when you insert yourself into a conversation with
the limited resources of someone who only understands his own point of
view.

It takes three keystrokes to type XP. It takes 8 to type "Windows". So if
you mean "XP" why are you typing "Windows"?


So, what finishing school did you say you went to?

Finishing of what, photos, furniture, arguments with Macloons, or something
else?


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