[pchelpers] Re: Operating systems

Hi John,

Friday, February 27, 2004, 3:48:43 PM, you wrote:

JD> I get some worrying feelings from this suggestion. No-one can deny that
JD> any hard drive is susceptable to normal wear and tear, virus/spyware
JD> attacks etc. That's why we do maintainance and have antivirus programs.
JD> In view of this, the idea of putting  the operating system on a 'hidden'
JD> partition means taking it out of the user's control altogether. If
JD> anything goes wrong (one simple file error), all you may be able to do
JD> is restore the whole thing from the CD. So much for configuring the
JD> system to do what you want it to do. If such configuration were to be
JD> practical, the files would need to be somewhere you could alter and
JD> update them. This rules out a hidden partition- if you can do that, it's
JD> not really hidden, is it?

Many/most vendors offer an icon on the deskop or menu for burning the
restore files to CDs; if an option like that is not available on a
particular computer, might want to contact the vendor.

--Scott.


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