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Installing an OS
Name: Willy Date: September 19, 2001 at 10:43:37 Pacific
Comment:
Thanks for taking the time to read my question. My first question is: what are the advantages of installing your OS on a seperate hard drive. My second question is: what do people mean when they say, "a 72-hour burn in." what is the burn-in process and how does it affect your system. Thanks in advance.
Name: darren Date: September 19, 2001 at 11:02:37 Pacific
Reply:
Putting your windows system on a separate hard drive (or partition) from your data makes it much more convenient for doing a 'system' backup or restore.
A 'Burn In' is nothing more than running a new system hard to try and get any weak components to fail. This might avoid it hanging on until the warranty runs out.
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