[wplug] [wplug-announce] Installfest This Saturday March 8th 10am-5pm

[Michael M Delaney]

IF you're going to use something to resize the partition, like Partition
Magic, you should definitly do a scandisk and defrag first.  If you're
going to wipe the whole partition, don't bother.

Mike

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Benjamin G. Beige wrote:

> Defrags for windows folks is good
> 
> 
> On 7 Mar 2003 03:41:54 -0000, Mark Dalrymple <wplug at badgertronics.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> >> Uh, curiousity question... how much of my computer would I need to 
> >> bring?
> >> Just the box, or should I bring keyboard, mouse, etc.?
> >
> > Pretty much everything you need to run it.  keyboard, monitor, mouse,
> > computer, plus appropriate cords.  If you have a spare floppy or two,
> > bring that (there have been a couple of times someone needed to do a
> > floppy boot, but there wasn't a floppy disk handy) If you want to hook
> > the computer up to the LAN, then bring a network cable (and a network
> > card, of course :-).  There are couple power strips there, but it'd be
> > good to bring your own.  There's a cart available for lugging stuff
> > to/from vehicles.
> >
> > Also, if you're wanting to install onto a computer that has useful
> > data on it, making a backup is a good idea.  I'm not a windows guy, so
> > I can't comment on whether running the defragmenter beforehand is
> > advised.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > ++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com.  http://badgertronics.com
> > "When she [Ivanova] tells what she knows, Garibaldi can be seen
> > rolling his eyes up 'innocently,' kind of a 'Who -- me?' look.  I think
> > this lends weight to the noogie theory."  -- Jonathan Reid
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