Re: Install problems

From: Crunch (not_at_home.nope)
Date: 08/08/05


Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:19:13 -0500

Mark South wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:31:02 +0000, Robert Newson wrote:
>
>> Mark South wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>> Yup, I've noticed that too, another MS mystery.
>>
>> I'm not sure if it's a mystery or a deliberate ploy to ensure you can't
>> shrink the NTFS partition to allow more, different, partitions to be
>> added.
>
> Conspiracy vs cockup, MS has been known for both.
>

M$ arrogantly assumes that you will have one and only one OS on a machine.
They program accordingly.

They wonder why on Earth would an end user want to decrease the size of an
NTFS partition? <barf>

-- 
Stephen S.
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