I second this comment - I think we should keep the bandwidth available for
the Piclist for Pic related (or very similar) discussions. I'm not knocking
Salah for his post - there's been a lot of OT posting recently but I think
we should respect the Piclist for what it is and keep it relevant.

By veering off target, we're using bandwidth, clogging up peoples inboxes,
wasting storage space on the Piclist server and adding to search times,
indexing times etc.

Some of the off target stuff is interesting but does not warrant 30-40 witty
replies (funny as some of them are ;-)

Please please please think twice before posting off target or adding your 2
cents worth ( I'm just as guilty as the rest of you ).

Any one else want to back me up ?????

Cheers

Dominic
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Bryden" <sbryden@FREE.FR>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]:Formatting a 80GB Hard Drive


> To reflect Scott Dattalo's (and others') sentiment, what does partitioning
a
> HDD have to do with PICs? I know that there may be people who know this,
or
> who are interested in speed of light discussions or what things people
blew up
> 20 years ago, but I am close do desubscribing because of the noise.
>
> I really enjoy learning from and contributing to the piclist, although
gave up
> once before (before the labelling) because of this. I know that I could
just
> desubscribe from OT, but it would seem to make more sense if people
interested
> in other topics discussed them on the appropriate boards.
>
> ... yes I know, I've probably gone and started a 20-post thread on a
subject
> unrelated to PICs ...
>
>
> Simon.
> ---
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:44:05AM -0700, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > how to format a 80GB hard drive  ..... the drive is not new
> > > and it is already NTFS formated ......
> >
> > Do you want to reformat the entire drive or a partition on it?
> >
> > What are you trying to do with the drive and/or partitions?
> >
> > To receive a "good" answer, you need to provide more details.
> > Here's some general information that may answer your question.
> >
> > If you want to format the entire drive, then you need a utility
> > provided by the drive manufacturer.  Usually you can download
> > it from the manufacturer's web site -- assuming that you are
> > using an Intel-style architecture CPU and IDE/ATA or SCSI disk.
> > General availability is harder for other, odd interfaces or for
> > non-Intel architecture systems.
> >
> > Your mention of "already NTFS formated" implies you are working
> > at the partition level and within Windows NT/2000/XP.  If so,
> > use the Microsoft provided utilities to repartition it and/or
> > reformat it (such as fdisk, format, or Disk Administrator).
> >
> > If you're switching to another operating system, such as Linux
> > or NetBSD, use the utilties that come with it to manipulate the
> > partition tables and/or format the partitions.
> >
> >                                                 Lee Jones
> >
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