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to: TOM WALKER
from: CHARLES ANGELICH
date: 2005-04-03 13:53:00
subject: w98 & HDs anyway

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Hello Tom - 

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CA>> As I recall this the _way_ it asks if you want to
CA>> 'prepare' to install is a bit misleading - or at least it
CA>> mislead me. 

TW> Well I suspect the Typical Computer would undeerstand that
TW> a little more then having it say FDISK. For "Prepair" most
TW> would think Why NOT? For "FDISK" their reaction would be
TW> "WHAT"? 

If I programmed that message into the install it would be more
like: "I'm not seeing _anything_ on this hard drive which means
I will now make changes to this hard drive that will completely
remove any files that _are_ there. If I am wrong to do this
next operation press CANCEL". 

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