Re: [MLUG] Is it just me or...

[box191 <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thursday 08 April 2004 12:04 pm, Dave McBride wrote:

> Can you get access to a recent version of PartitionMagic (v.8 is current I
> think)?  Or Linux cfdisk or parted (man cfdisk; man parted), but if you're 
> new to Linux, PartitionMagic would be friendlier and maybe (?) better to see
> problems on fat32 partition.

I have an old PartitionMagic v.3 (1996) and it can't find anything
wrong with the drive. I have BootItNG (2004), somewhat like PM,
and it can't find anything wrong. Win98 fdisk finds nothing wrong. 
Linux cfdisk and parted can't read the drive: "FATAL ERROR Can't
open drive." Linux can't format the drive; it can't do anything with
it except read the ID info from the ROM.

> Re. disturbance of shit:  PartitionMagic...I see that the Symantec Blob has
> consumed it.  By version 9 I'm sure it will be excreted in about 7 packages, 
> all priced separately.  So by my reckoning, that makes pretty much every bit
> of DOS/Win utilityware that I've ever found worthwhile.  And it all turns to 
> crap.  PCTools, CleanSweep, even Norton Utilities used to be good once.   
How
> come everybody rants about Micro$oft (which is way too easy, BTW), and even 
> Novell, but I see nary a word about Symantec's stealth monopoly?

Used to be good can mean still good. I'm still using CleanSweep
Deluxe (1997) and even bits of Norton Utilities 4.5 (1989), one
reason I keep putting my old hard drive in a new computer.

Dick


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