[ale] If you own (almost) ANY HDD, repartition with 4k boundaries

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

On 3/20/2013 2:47 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at axs.org 
> <mailto:cp at axs.org>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:04 PM, David Ritchie
>     <deritchie at gmail.com <mailto:deritchie at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         Repeat after me: Windows XP is an obsolete, unsupported
>         software system.
>
>
>     Technically it is supported until mid April 2014.  That being said
>     I have an nv4_disp BSOD issue with an old Nvidia 5200 card and I
>     am unlikely to see a driver update or MS update to fix it.  Too
>     bad my attempts at converting Mom to Linux failed.
>
>
> Supported meaning in this case "We will still be polite when you call 
> MS about your XP problem, but unless you are a Fortune 50 company
> that is running into this issue, we can wait you out - and we might 
> just do that even if you *are* a Fortune 50 company..."
> Unsupported, IMO. I don't think we are too far out of agreement 
> here.... I would be doubtful there will ever be a SP4. Is MS doing
> any patches for XP today? Just curious...
>
> Best regards,
> David Ritchie
>
>

I just turned on an XP machine yesterday and it wanted to load patches.  
They probably came out on the 12th though.  I wouldn't relish the 
thought of trying to get this old beast to run with a 4K drive though, 
although it might be possible.

Ron

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