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Unpartitioning C:
Name: rbdavis Date: December 7, 2005 at 11:43:12 Pacific OS: MSDOS CPU/Ram: unknown
Comment:
My computer is running DOS and I'm trying to install Windows 95. The C: drive has been partitioned into C:, D:, and E:. When I try to install Windows, it says "Windows setup requires 7340032 bytes on your C: Drive." I'm guessing that I need to get D: and E: back into C: to have enough space. How can I do this?
Definitely for a posting NOT in a DOS Forum it is a Windows Installation / FDisk / Format. Also you seem to have a new type of PC hardware:
CPU/Ram: unknown ??????????
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: December 9, 2005 at 21:50:19 Pacific
Reply:
Your c: drive isn't formatted. Or the c: partition is too small.
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Response Number 4
Name: jboy Date: December 9, 2005 at 22:38:41 Pacific
Reply:
Hmmm - y'know, I mentioned that the other day (but someone found it offensive).
c'est la vie
Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null questions like “Can anyone help me?”
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: December 9, 2005 at 23:28:14 Pacific
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On this thread? Well I suppose partitions and formatting can be a very touchy subject ;-)
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Response Number 6
Name: jboy Date: December 10, 2005 at 14:38:11 Pacific
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That's a fact - hot button topics, all of'em
Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null questions like “Can anyone help me?”
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Response Number 7
Name: Zenith Date: December 19, 2005 at 18:30:39 Pacific
Reply:
I know they always get me going.....
Internet search engines are your friends.
Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. "The Matrix"
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Response Number 8
Name: Dan Penny Date: December 21, 2005 at 04:24:59 Pacific
Reply:
My doctor has prescribed Prozac for me as a result of these type topics. Better take one now......
It's a good day when you learn something
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Response Number 9
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: December 21, 2005 at 17:22:17 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Dan,
Season's greetings.
I'll take two of them blue ones.
And a six-pak of snowballs.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 10
Name: jboy Date: December 23, 2005 at 16:14:01 Pacific
Reply:
Yes indeed - I'm giving serious consideration to that "twelve step program" after all - although perhaps a Prozac suppository (of sufficient magnitude) would provide fast, fast relief
If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers
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