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Old December 20th 17, 01:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
philo
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Default New HDD, has corrupted Data - AGAIN

On 12/19/2017 06:56 AM, Paul wrote:

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e in the newsgroups tested
at the time, is they inserted a SATA PCI card into
the machine. And the BIOS just ignored it, and the
OS couldn't use it. So again, if you use hardware
cards the BIOS has never heard of, there will be
problems.

But these really aren't surprises. It's to be
expected things like this will happen.

I was booting something just yesterday, and in the
boot log on the screen it said "18493843248 GB disk".
Then the next line said "this is a really big disk".
No ****. So again, modern software is never prepared
for surprises, even if the software was written
in 2017. I don't know how the booting OS in that
case, had managed to query the disk drive, but
it got an absurdly large (wrong) size from it. No software
is really "prepared for infinity and beyond" :-)

The main problem with old computers, is there's no
decent web browser to use on them. That's why the
machines sit in the Junk Room.

Â*Â* Paul





A few years ago I gave away a huge, dual power supply server with a lot
of SCSI drives in it.

Worked just fine but it absolutely would have run up the electric bill


For the last few years I've been getting those inexpensive cpu/mobo combos.

No problems with them and they take 25 watts maybe