[TechAssist] Re: Computer Question if I may?
- From: Ed Gaidies <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:35:25 -0500
George:
I notice in your emails you come in as just a (period) in the "From"
column.
Could you check in your set up and see if you have entered you
personal or business name. A (period) tends to denote deception,
although not in your case.
Not meddling...just a suggestion.
-Ed-
Ed Gaidies
Tel-Tek Electronics
Ontario-Canada
teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
teltek@xxxxxxxxx
On 3-Jan-05, at 2:01 AM, . wrote:
> Warren,
>
> I did a couple of 80GB IDE ATA 133 Maxtor Drives this week using the
> Windows 98 boot disk and received the same wrong readings. Not to
> worry it
> will have all of the drive space available just the boot disk is too
> old and
> can't read it out correctly. Recommend upgrading to XP to make better
> use of
> the drive space.
>
> George
> Afana Electronics
> Moreno Valley, CA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren C." <warrenca@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "techassist" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 6:20 AM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Computer Question if I may?
>
>
>> 1st . HAPPY NEW YEAR to all!!!
>> .
>> I will try to describe the problem in short form.
>> My wife bought me a new Intel 4 computer for Christmas but it does not
>> have an Op Sys on it.
>> She knew that I would want to image my existing C drive (win98 se)
>> over
>> to it.
>> The new hard drive is an 80 Gig SATA hd and I think that this is
>> complicating my tasks.
>> My usual method of Fdisking the hd is not working!
>> I'm booting from my win98se cd. and using the fdisk from there.
>> When you try to create your primary dos partition you are asked if you
>> want to be able to handle large size hd's
>> Y or N so you say Y (fat32). I wish to create an extended partition by
>> the way, so that I can have many drive letters on the hd up to the
>> letter L. This will match my old system that I have now-- don't ask
>> why.
>>
>> When you finish creating your Primary dos partition the max size that
>> it
>> shows is 10781Mbytes not 80000
>> Mbytes. What happened to my other 70 G's.
>> I feel confident with all the other tasks ahead of me but I must get
>> the
>> hard drive partitioned and formatted the
>> way I want first.
>>
>> Thanks to all.
>>
>> Warren Campbell
>> Campbell's TV & Appliances
>> Cannington
>> Ont.
>>
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