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#158364 - 01/05/2003 07:43 Windows XP is sofa king stupid
robricc
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Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Check this out. I am installing XP Home on a co worker's machine. He has a 6-in-1 USB memory card reader in the thing. Look at what drive letter Windows gave the hard drive.



What a joke.


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#158365 - 01/05/2003 07:45 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: robricc]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Sofa king?

Edit: Oh. I get it.


Edited by wfaulk (01/05/2003 07:47)
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#158366 - 01/05/2003 08:34 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: robricc]
siberia37
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Registered: 09/01/2002
Posts: 702
Loc: Tacoma,WA
well don't you know the boot hard drive gets the lowest priority for drive letters. See.. the removable drives and dvd drives get their letters first and only then does the boot hard drive get its letter.. I mean c'mon that's logical. BTW, you may want to run the attached batch file at startup- because w/o a C drive Windows explorer will not show any icons for folders or drives.. very annoying.


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#158367 - 01/05/2003 08:38 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: siberia37]
robricc
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Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
I just got done wiping the drive and reinstalled with the 6-in-1 disconnected. All is well.
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#158368 - 01/05/2003 09:10 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: robricc]
jbauer
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Registered: 08/05/2000
Posts: 1429
Loc: San Francisco, CA
I believe you can use "Computer Management" to reassign drive letters as you wish with XP.

Go to start, control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk manager...

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#158369 - 01/05/2003 09:21 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: jbauer]
AndrewT
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Registered: 16/02/2002
Posts: 867
Loc: Oxford, UK
Is XP clever enough to reassign the boot drive like this? It would be nice to think it could but I somehow doubt it

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#158370 - 01/05/2003 09:22 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: AndrewT]
jbauer
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Registered: 08/05/2000
Posts: 1429
Loc: San Francisco, CA
Hm. Maybe you are right. I have juggled drive letters around, but maybe it can't do the boot drive... I'm not gonna try it, YOU try it! (Life breakfast cereal commercial)

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#158371 - 01/05/2003 09:26 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: jbauer]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
I don't think even Mikey is brave enough to swap the drive letter on the boot drive...
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#158372 - 01/05/2003 09:50 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: wfaulk]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
ftp://castlegreenwald.dyndns.org/Music/Firesign&Humorous/

Sofa King.mp3

It has to be one of the funnier radio bits I've ever heard.

-Zeke

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#158373 - 01/05/2003 10:42 Re: Windows XP is sofa king stupid [Re: Ezekiel]
davec
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Registered: 18/08/2000
Posts: 992
Loc: Georgetown, TX USA
I saw a band one night on 6th Street here in Austin called Sofa King. A band consisting of two Tesla band members. Anyways, all we could say was they were sofaking bad because they thought they needed to be LOUD. The opening band, a Bon Scott AC/DC sounding band called Broken Teeth, lead by Jason McMasters of Dangerous Toys fame, blew them away sofaking bad...
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