Microsoft sucks dead bunnies, again

Post #32,910 by wharris2 3/20/02 6:08:28 PM Reply	Microsoft sucks dead bunnies, again This may not be in the right place, but I'm feeling nasty toward Microsoft orders to OEM's. Okay, so I have this new computer with XP on it. Trying to use some other software, it tells me I've got a disk problem. I run chkdsk. Indeed, it says there's some sort of problem. Okay, I look in help for chkdsk. Seems I can't run it except in the Recovery Console, which I can install from the setup disk. I don't HAVE a setup disk, you lunatics, all I have is this damn recovery disk! After trying to find out where the stuff is on the recovery disk I find something that seems to look like what they're telling me to do in this oh-so-helpful help, try to do it, but it can't install it anyway. Noticing that when run from the console, chkdsk gives an option not listed in "help", I try running "chkdsk /f". Windows XP tells me it can't lock the current volume, but it can schedule it for the next reboot! OK! I do this, it doesn't fix it completely, but when I do another chkdsk /f and another reboot, all fixed. Lunatic Microsoft help writers. Damn "restore" disks that won't let me load useful utilities. In the end, though Microsoft sucketh and bloweth, someone there knew how to do something. I still don't have this recovery console, though. "I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
Post #32,969 by static 3/21/02 4:38:00 AM Reply	Search clue. Have a look in c:\\windows\\options. This seems to be the directory that OEM installs of Windows put the install files. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #32,991 by Andrew Grygus 3/21/02 11:06:13 AM Reply	WHY Microsoft sucks dead bunny balls . . . Because you're running Windows anyway. There is simply no reason to bother fixing it. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #32,992 by wharris2 3/21/02 11:13:56 AM Reply	That was the original motivation I want/need to keep some version of Windows around for many games, but I was trying to repartition my disk so I could add a couple more partitions for Linux and perhaps BSD. The software I was using didn't want to work on a disk with an error (probably quite correctly), thus the need for chkdsk. While I was doing this, I also ran defragmentation (hey, wait a minute, I thought NTFS would never need defragmentation and it was so shiny-perfect it would never need chkdsk and ....) "I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
Post #32,996 by Andrew Grygus 3/21/02 11:38:53 AM Reply	NTFS not need defrag? I presume you jest here. By time it's fully installed, Windows NT on NTFS needs defrag - painfully - and NTFS is very difficult to defrag. With 2000 you get a cut down version of a third party defrag program (except in Germany where Microsoft has to allow it to be removed because the Church of Scientology is legally considered a "dangerous cult" there). [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #33,005 by wharris2 3/21/02 12:01:26 PM Reply	Of course I jest I merely refer to five or ten years of Microsoft propaganda about how excellent, superb, squeaky-clean, superior, etc. etc. etc. NTFS is. "I didn't know you could drive to Europe." -- An eavesdropper, piping in when he overheard a conversation about someone who had driven to Montreal.
Post #33,037 by Ashton 3/21/02 4:33:48 PM Reply	Of Course! it's a dangerous cult - but only to your mind. (You don't need one of those to achieve success)
Post #33,059 by Andrew Grygus 3/21/02 6:02:02 PM Reply	Not just to your mind . . If a lawyer choses to have a religion, the "religion" most attractive to lawyers is Scientology. The church is swamped with lawyers, so any time you offend the CoS, you're likely to end up in court for eternity. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #33,067 by Ashton 3/21/02 6:34:53 PM Reply	Calling it a 'religion' is tantamount to calling greed a 'virtue': everything in this Corporation is about $. Religion? In a Pig's Eye.. (even the pseudo-esoteric Secrut Lore is third-hand hints from P.D. Ouspensky and Woolworths Pep-meetings) But maybe when yer billing at $300/hr. - fast-food is all ya have time for.. Ashton Hmm.. maybe Scentology for those with delicate noses?

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