Re: on and off topic on installing Xywrite and other programs and windows on new pc
- From: "Avrom Fischer" <avromf@xxxxxxx>
- To: <xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:44:56 -0400
Dear Richard
Thanks for your suggestion. I do have an external 500 gig hard drive which I
use for back up plus another pc with a 160 gig hard drive which I will also use
for backup. My concern is not so much a mechanical failure of a hard drive,
but rather malware or virus. I have found if windows is completely isolated
that invariably it is the windows that is infected and it is easiest to cure by
simply reinstalling it. I agree with you that if there is a mechanical
failure nothing can save the data on the drive.
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Henderson<mailto:Richard.Henderson@xxxxxxxx>
To: xywritenew<mailto:xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: on and off topic on installing Xywrite and other programs and
windows on new pc
Under you current plan you are tempting the fates to spare you from disaster.
Regardless of how many partitions you create you still will have just one
drive in your system, and if anything goes wrong with it, you will lose all of
it.
If you purchased a desktop or tower system, rather than a laptop, I suggest
that you buy at least one more hard drive (100 -140GB), and make that the C:\
drive in order to truly isolate your operating system and other windows based
applications.
Then if your C:\ drive fails, or becomes too infected to repair / recover by
other means, you will be able to reformat the C:\ drive, or replace it with a
new drive and re-install your operating system and applications, without losing
all of your DOS based applications, and more importantly the data you are going
to create or migrate over to the new PC. You should have room for 2-3 hard
drives, plus the optical drive, at a minimum on a tower or desktop PC. NOTE: A
3.5" hard drive will fit in the floppy drive slot, if you no longer use floppy
discs. You might also be able to use external drives for the other dedicated
functions you envision. Each time you partition a hard drive you minimize the
overall storage capacity on the drive, because the available sectors may be in
different partitions.
BTW some of the 64-Bit PC systems, have a virtual 32 bit operating system
that runs concurrently with the 64 Bit system , for use with programs not
compatible with the 64 Bit environment.
If you bought a laptop, you will need external drives to realize the benefits
of a multiple drive system, without rethe rest of the sorting to partitioning.
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>>> "Avrom Fischer" <avromf@xxxxxxx> 5/24/2011 5:17 PM >>>
Dear fellow Xywriters (is there a better word)
I would appreciate the expert advice from the xylist mavens on where and how
to set up Xywrite on a new computer and other advice.
I just bought a new pc from dell with 4 gigs of ram, a 250 gig hard drive,
and win7 32bit operating system rather than the 64 bit operating system so that
I can continue to run Xywrite and other dos programs such as wordperfect and
word for word.
I intend to partition my hard drive as follows 40 gigs for c: on which I will
only install windows and nothing else. 50 gigs for d: on which I will install
any windows programs. 40 gigs for E: on which I will install all dos programs
along with data from dos programs and pure text files. I will split the
remaining space on the hard drive into three approximately equal partitions,
one of which I will use to store copies of all my program cd's and drivers. The
rest will be for date generated by windows programs in one logical drive and
the other for date from internet generated downloads.
Would appreciate any suggestions and criticisms. My motive in installing
windows on c: and nothing else on C: is that it seems from my experience to
reinstall windows is the easiest way besides a system restore for getting rid
of virus or other malware. After that I install my other windows programs. this
way I have never lost data or my access to dos files
So far I have been satisfied to run Xywrite and wordperfect within windows
without any need for programs such as tamedos. I very rarely have to go to
windows generated material when using Xywrite.
I start Xywrite and wordperfect from icons on my desktop in a window and than
alt enter to go to a full screen. My only complaint is that exiting is not
always smooth and that on startup of Xywrite itself I always get a half screen
which I have to alt w to get a full screen. Looking forward to any and all
comments, suggestions and criticisms.
Avrom Fischer
avromf@xxxxxxx<mailto:avromf@xxxxxxx> or
af413@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:af413@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
786 East 19th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11230
718 434 7696
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