Re: [PLUG] Cross-platform hardware problem

[Mental Patient <mental@neverlight.com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 19:00, Jeffrey J. Nonken wrote:
> If you have an old copy of Windows, if you ever had an old copy of 
> Windows (God help you if you run fdisk to remove a partition, 
> figuring to force Windows to create a new one and format it clean -- 
> nope, it'll detect the old one!), if you ever had a hard drive that 
> USED to have Windows on it, if your mother's foreign cousin's gay 
> boyfriend's roommate's CAT ever THOUGHT about buying a computer with 
> Windows on it, it will somehow track it down and use the settings 
> that cat would have used.
> 
> OK, I won't swear to that one.
> 

I find that a low level format fixes that. But I know what you're
describing, DOS fdisk and format seem to somehow preserve the (broken)
registry settings. 


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Mental (Mental@NeverLight.com)

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