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Yes I agree about the new "recovery partition". I hate that ideal. In the old days [1998-2006 about] they would include a recovery disc with the software and OS on it. At least Dell, Toshiba and Gateway did. Now we get the useless recovery partition. In the end a user would have to buy the retail OS version to get the real deal. And download all the drivers manually. I don't know, I think it's one OS dvd per pc.
Hi. I just so happen to like Windows 98se. It was my first computer. And it could play a lot of old games. And the one thing I liked about it is I didn't have to check in with Microsoft to activate it. That was the good ol' days. That's one of the flaws about XP, the activation part. They should make a patch to get rid of it. Since they want to get rid of XP.
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Hi Jesse2357.
READ my post to your other question, It details what I had to do dealing with the BIOS and the boot order. I usually rather have a 80 GB SATA drive than an 80 GB IDE drive as my boot drive anyway, it is ten to twenty times faster. IF you have all IDE connectors as two full channels THEN you must use IDE drives, or else go SATA. Figure it out: IDE drives are 480 MHZ and SATA drives are either 1.5, 3, or 6 GHz. USE the SATA drive. IF you want any size go on line and order the size you want. Or go to Best Buy and get a 320 or above SATA drive YOU will be happy that you did. Secondly, I have three PCs that have both an IDE channel or two and at least two or four SATA ports, and I have no problem in selecting which one goes first by the BIOS. "It is elementry, my Dear Watson"!
From Edmond the Hardware Egineer,
Could you please stop it with the bolded text? It's considered rude, and it's the text version of yelling.
