winscape 2278

crapping

I think it's more of how we peer at the computing world. You have hardware glbuttes and I have software glbuttes. If either of us borrows the other set of glbuttes, things get all blurry. I am talking purely about how an OS retrieves data from a physical disk. It first has to retrieve the pointer to the FAT. Then it retrieves the file that contains the FAT data. Now the OS can go get files and contents of user files.

It is all data at some point; when data becomes a pointer is a small matter of implementation.

Sigh! Not if it uses part of the FAT as its data or visa versa.

No. This is where you are not getting it. There is absolutely no reason to reinstall if the disk hasn't been trashed. YOu do not have to start with a blank disk if you want to upgrade a monitor from Vm.0 to Vm.1. You can just copy the MONITOR.EXE over the old MONITOR.EXE.

No. This only happens if the FAT (or whatever the new one is called) is trashed.

I can tell that you do hardware. :-{.

The reason for that is because the FAT has been trashed and not user files.

I'm having a lot of bad days. It doesn't help that you cannot take your hardware specs off.

BAH