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re: Major Mistake
Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 4:02 pm
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Posted by C K (6157 messages posted)


I'm wondering if her floppies and/or other media are good etc.  (pressed CD's being 
the exception if they are not scratched) I'm having a lot of floppies go bad in the 
past several years, many that were MS originals from the 90's.  Good thing I have 
images backed up so I can make new ones.  Luckily, I don't have to work on that many 
9X systems anymore...  Floppies that customers are bringing me I find are bad when 
I do have to work on a system, so that's why they are having problems trying to reload/repair 
their own systems..  Problem really gets bad when it is manufacturer recovery CDRs 
burnt when the machine was new.  Early CDR media other than the expensive gold stuff 
is failing left and right IME...  :-(

So many problems..  So little time..  ;-)



Written in response to:
re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 12:45 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 7:01 am)

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-Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:21 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Don: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 4:01 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 5:07 pm)
*re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 5:15 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Steve: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:05 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:43 pm)
*re: Major Mistake (Steve: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 7:56 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 11:55 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Steve: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:17 am)
*re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:33 am)
*re: Major Mistake (Alan Masterman: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 8:16 pm)
*re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 19, 2007, 11:50 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Ed: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 4:50 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 10:36 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:01 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:23 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 11:44 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 1:39 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 2:11 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 2:25 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 4:43 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Ed: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 4:52 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 6:54 am)
-re: Major Mistake (C K: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 10:18 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 12:45 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (C K: Sat, Apr 21, 2007, 4:02 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:01 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:38 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:44 am)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:57 am)
*re: Major Mistake (C K: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:17 am)
*re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 1:58 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 3:44 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 4:18 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Linda: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 4:27 pm)
-re: Major Mistake (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 7:00 pm)
-re: PS (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:14 pm)
-re: FDISK (Ed: Sun, Apr 22, 2007, 8:36 pm)
-re: FDISK (Linda: Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 6:38 am)
*re: FDISK (Ed: Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 1:54 pm)
-re: FDISK (Ed: Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:30 pm)
-re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 7:21 am)
-re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 12:44 pm)
-re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 1:42 pm)
*re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 2:05 pm)
-re: FDISK (Linda: Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 2:22 pm)
-re: FDISK (Ed: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 12:28 pm)
-re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 1:13 pm)
-re: FDISK (Ed: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 1:36 pm)
-re: FDISK (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 2:13 pm)
-re: FDISK (Linda: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 4:28 pm)