Windows XP Fanatics take note

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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/19/2010 6:04 PM
	A rather surprising article hit the front page of the BBC on Tuesday: the next generation of hard disks could cause slowdowns for XP users. Not normally the kind of thing you'd expect to be placed so prominently, but the warning it gives is a worthy one, if timed a bit oddly. The world of hard disks is set to change, and the impact could be severe. read more __________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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dvmdsc Guru Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: In the pool because it is too hot. Posts: 3054 Good Answers: 141	#1 Re: Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/19/2010 10:26 PM
	Fanatics or Hostages? __________________ Plenty of room here
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70AARCuda Guru Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 1331 Good Answers: 30	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/19/2010 10:31 PM
	...sounds like M/S has swayed the HD manufacturers to the "...dark side." ...so, that makes us (me!) a hostage (again) to M/S __________________ ...and the Devil said: "...yes, but it's a DRY heat..!"
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Garthh Guru Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Mariposa Ca Posts: 5800 Good Answers: 114	#3 Re: Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/20/2010 11:06 PM
	Time marches on excuse me while I go listen to some 78's the 1st phase work around is slower, will the 2nd be? just another way for aftermarket refurbishers to prosper
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cwarner7_11 Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Panama Posts: 4273 Good Answers: 213	#4 Re: Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/20/2010 11:38 PM
	I do not see this as any more than an MS marketing ploy. Second market disks of the current generation are going to be around for a long, long time. MS has been unable to wean us off XP through two generations of upgrades by offering an improved product, so now they try to scare us in to changing. Last time they tried this, they scared me right in to the Linux camp...Now I am running multiple Linux distros, some designed for 32 bit machines, some for 64 bit machines, all on the same machine. A note to MS: It's not the operating system, people. It is the applications. Please stop messing with Excel. You once had it right, now I can't find my way around the GUI...
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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	#6 In reply to #4 Re: Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/22/2010 5:38 AM
	now I can't find my way around the GUI... use the tutorial __________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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cwarner7_11 Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Panama Posts: 4273 Good Answers: 213	#7 In reply to #6 Re: Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/22/2010 11:13 AM
	WHAT???? Read the instructions???? Who ever heard of such nonsense!!!
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Qqberci Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Budapest, Hungary, HA5YAR Posts: 617 Good Answers: 14	#5 Re: Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/21/2010 3:23 AM
	Or back to the good old CKD format?... __________________ Aged man is not old man...
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Pineapple Power-User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 302 Good Answers: 4	#8 Re: Windows XP Fanatics take note 03/22/2010 2:55 PM
	Hard drive is using 512B sector but XP formated with NTFS use 4096B cluster. So its been reading 4096B of data from the HD already. You can format the drive to use larger cluster size, like 8k and 16k. Also the motherboard may have problem read the HD before the OS get to it. __________________ Pineapple
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