just as a miserable side note. I once in my younger days wondered what would happen if you actively wiped out the partition ware windows was installed. those who know me, would know that, i'd sit to find out. right?
so I did.
now sit with me, and let me tell you a little story, from a appy, who just begun with pcs.
turns out. i got very lucky. and can tell you never to try it. here's what happened.
I had 2 partitions.
the 1 was a very small little system partition. don't know how it got their, don't know why it was their. but, in that particular drive. it was used to boot the pc.
so, in other words, everything started from that little partition.
the beautiful little boot files was sitting there. quite happily. they really did nothing wrong, you see.
They was mining their own business. when I came along. and tried to format the partition.
It obviously did not work. windows saw what I was trying to do, and in my younger in experienced days, the fact it did not wanna format, just bugged me.
Now see here, this little partitions got to go! yes you do. you ain't saying know to me. I want you gone!
I had my install disk handy, so did not care for that instelation. I wanted to know, what would happen if this little partition got wiped out.
the only problem was, good old windows was standing right their, blocking me.
so, what did I do? well, I got out the virtual hammer.
I hooked up partition magic,
and forcefully wiped it.
it warned me that files are in use, it also warned me it was the boot partition, it even whent as far, as to offer me the cancel butten first.
but know, know, I was not interested, I did not wanna listen, I wanted to wipe this little partition. who done no body any harm.
So, i fully expected the pc not to boot,
right?
so that was exactly what happened.
but with one steven king type of twist.
and hence why I come to the end of my story. with a warning to all of you.
for those foolish soles who is curious, who looks at a little small small boot partition, and wonders if he or she should wipe it out. just for laughs? don't do it, when a active version of windows is running.
when windows it self is refusing to delete it, when disk part refuses, hell when no commands you can think of, would release it. in that curious moment when know usual force commands would work!
Remember now, this was the days before common sence.
So, why should I not go ahead?
why? well, here's the answer.
the drive I was using was a segate 320 gig drive.
the usable space on the drive was 298.09 gigs.
would you guess how much space was left after reinstelation of the new windows?
would you guess what the drive did?
*roles the drums and rings a game bell*.
the drive took that little 100 megs of corrupted space. and removed it completely.
it actively marked that space as bad sectors and refused to give it back until this day.
until this day. that same seagate 320 gig drive, of 10 years ago. stil lives with me, it stil ticks along happily.
its health is at 100 percent. that was when seagate made drives to last.
it has, know, bad sectors.
but until this very day.
the usable space is only, 297point 9seven gigs.
when in actual fact its twin drive, stil offers me the full 298 point 09 gigs.
And that folks, is why I never, ever, ever mess around with trying to see if i can break windows, just for fun,
just because it was a nice board warm satterday afternoon when the birds was chirping outside.
Perhaps one day. if I have a drive I care not for, i'll mess around again. but until then, When I have that much time to waste, i'll stick to my hard learned advice, which is. do not mess with active boot partitions, if it is windows xp whose managing things.
and be carefull if it warns you that its in use.
And that folks, is my little story for the day.
There's a place for me in this universe.
