partitions problems in XP
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I had a create buck on Windows XP. I had so many partitions on it as the number of alphabetic, but I didn’t recognize it. So when I tried to stick the USB stick on my pc it didn’t work. It was clear that the pc recognize the USB but there where no letter left. Nice one :laugh:
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I had a create buck on Windows XP. I had so many partitions on it as the number of alphabetic, but I didn’t recognize it. So when I tried to stick the USB stick on my pc it didn’t work. It was clear that the pc recognize the USB but there where no letter left. Nice one :laugh:
How is that a bug? It may be a design flaw, but back when the drive letter scheme came into play it would never occur. It's more a flaw in Microsoft insisting on backward-compatibility.
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How is that a bug? It may be a design flaw, but back when the drive letter scheme came into play it would never occur. It's more a flaw in Microsoft insisting on backward-compatibility.
hmmm this might be why MS is moving towards hiding drive letters in the newer OSes. The breadcrumb thing in explorer largely does that. Homeserver is supposed to be completely drive letter less, with new drives just being automatically merged into the single pseudo-raid mirror volume.
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?
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hmmm this might be why MS is moving towards hiding drive letters in the newer OSes. The breadcrumb thing in explorer largely does that. Homeserver is supposed to be completely drive letter less, with new drives just being automatically merged into the single pseudo-raid mirror volume.
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?
dan neely wrote:
Homeserver is supposed to be completely drive letter less, with new drives just being automatically merged into the single pseudo-raid mirror volume.
Yeah, and it will sure work fine untill one of the 2+ drives you have dies. Especially the middle one. Nor could you move one of the drives to another PC. IMHO, they should make it so after Y:\ will go AA:\ AB:\, and so on. Z:\ drive could be used to fool legacy apps that insist on signle-letter drive letters into thinking they're getting installed into Z:\ (and reading from-/writing to -it), when in reality the user would chose where the Z:\ is. Not such an easy thing to grasp/implement, but surely would be better than no drive letters at all(or one drive letter spanning _all_ drives). ^All above is IMHO.
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dan neely wrote:
Homeserver is supposed to be completely drive letter less, with new drives just being automatically merged into the single pseudo-raid mirror volume.
Yeah, and it will sure work fine untill one of the 2+ drives you have dies. Especially the middle one. Nor could you move one of the drives to another PC. IMHO, they should make it so after Y:\ will go AA:\ AB:\, and so on. Z:\ drive could be used to fool legacy apps that insist on signle-letter drive letters into thinking they're getting installed into Z:\ (and reading from-/writing to -it), when in reality the user would chose where the Z:\ is. Not such an easy thing to grasp/implement, but surely would be better than no drive letters at all(or one drive letter spanning _all_ drives). ^All above is IMHO.
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Anton Afanasyev wrote:
Yeah, and it will sure work fine untill one of the 2+ drives you have dies. Especially the middle one.
The way it's supposed to work you can add or remove single drives transparently and as long as you have >=2 drives and sufficient capacity it will shuffle the files around to maintain a mirrored copy of everything in the array. From what I understand one of the primary goals is to make a NAS with raidesque data mirroring that can be upgraded in capacity by users with relatively modest levels of technical skill. I'm fairly sure there're a few other things in it, but off the top of my head I don't recall what. I know they scrapped the idea of domains for the home because they weren't able to come up with a sufficiently idiotfriendly implementation along with the fact that vista only supports them in business/ultimate editions although that could be a chicken/egg issue.
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?