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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 30 March 2005, 8:12 PM)

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Ya know eventually there is gonna have to be CD format that is going to have to be settled upon. Think of it as what we think of floppies as today. I can remember many years ago when all it took was to make a bootable floppy was just to pop it into the drive and type:
sys c: a:

on the command prompt. And this is what we call progress? Anyways ever since Windows '95 there has never been a convenient way of making a bootable substitute other than having the OS boot from your hard drive. And then along comes a nasty virus, it screws up key Windows binaries. You've got a report due tomorrow and your laptop just crashed! Whats the old MS standby line(that is in the absense of third party utilities)?

MS:"Reformat your hard drive! You backed up your data right?"

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