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   From: glee29@spamindspring.com   
      
   "Steve Urbach"  wrote in message   
   news:6urpa89v1l1h1pp4ddg1elgno1f1mljb5p@4ax.com...   
   > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:25:09 -0500, "glee"    
   > wrote:   
   > e!   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Your snide comment about Asperger syndrome is insulting, irrelevant   
   >>and   
   >>inappropriate, as well as showing that you don't actually know what   
   >>it's   
   >>symptoms are.   
   >>As for your comment concerning backups, there is no relationship   
   >>whatsoever between someone trying to gain disk space and your claim   
   >>that   
   >>such a person doesn't do backups.   
   >>   
   >>As for spending $20 to buy a new large hard drive.... seriously?   
   >>Where   
   >>do you see new large hard drives for $20?!  It is perfectly valid for   
   >>a   
   >>user on limited income (retired, elderly, or a low-income family with   
   >>children, and ,many others) to not be able to afford replacing a good   
   >>hard drive with a larger one for the sole purpose of gaining disk   
   >>space,   
   >>when they need their money for other things.  Apparently you do not   
   >>work   
   >>with a large number of home users or are unaware of the priorities   
   >>some   
   >>people must set in regards to how they spend and on what.  Perhaps it   
   >>is   
   >>you who live in the remote part of Hindu Kush.... another of your   
   >>snide   
   >>and unnecessary remarks, by the way.   
   >   
   > I bet there are plenty of 'lightly used' drives that came out of   
   > systems that   
   > were upgraded that could be had for that.   
   >   
   > Many (not the ultra mini ones) 'desktop' systems have room for a   
   > second HD. so   
   > there would be no *need* to get a 'big' drive   
   >   
   > XP can *span*  drives if having a new drive letter would confuse.   
      
   "Spanning" drives in XP can only be done with XP Pro, not XP Home, and   
   cannot be done on a portable computer, e.g. a laptop.   
      
   While there are some laptops that have a second hard drive bay, they are   
   not particularly common.   
      
   Yes, a used hard drive may be available for $20, but I would not suggest   
   a user "upgrade" to a used hard drive as their primary single drive.   
   --   
   Glen Ventura   
   MS MVP  Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009   
   CompTIA A+   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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