Hellbringin Mofo

quote:Originally posted by XenoZohar: 3. Should I invest in Partition Magic or would fdisk be enough for the above partitioning? (See question 1) Usually you can get partioning and formatting software from your harddrive manufacturers web site. For instance, I have a WesternDigital and their website has a free utility for it: DataLifeguard. Check with your harddrive manufacturer.

First: hopefully you have a CD burner or Zip drive to copy anything you want to save from your harddrive. You should save anything you will need again (favorites, etc.) Second: copy down your network/modem settings so you can get back online as soon as possible to get drivers, windowsupdate, etc. Also copy down any passwords you need. Third: gather all install disks together (any hardware you have that came with a disk with drivers on it you may need to reinstall. Although most drivers you find are usually out of date and need to be updated from the web). Fourth: create a Startup Disk. In Win 95/98/Me you can do this from Control Panel/AddRemove prog./Startup Disk. You use this disk to boot your cpu in msdos to partition and reformat your disk. For WinXP you need to download the startup disk creator from microsoft's website(you also need 6 floppy's for it) In win98 reboot with your startup disk, with or without cdrom support, and at the prompt run: fdisk. Follow the instructions to remove all partitions and create new ones. WARNING: as soon as you change anything here, everything on your harddrive will be lost! When your done, restart, leave startup disk in drive, and at prompt use 'format c:' to format local disk (then repeat for all other partitions, format d:, format e:, etc.) Then restart one last time. Startup 'with cdrom support' and at prompt run setup.exe from your Windows cd. The rest should be automated by the Windows disk, you just have to customize what you want installed (accessories, network). Hope this helped.

I know a few people who may want this... http://www.nvidia.com/ Should I have posted this in BCM General Discussion? [ 12-03-2001: Message edited by: Hellbringin Mofo ]

quote:Originally posted by Gomez: The moon is actually really far from Earth Can't remember the exact figure, but it's something like 300,000km from earth. Now, compare that to say the circumference of the earth (at the equator), 41,600km, and your standard carrier size, less than 1km . If I'm not mistaken, the moon in the game is actually at it's appropriate distance. Then how come I can't see the Earth from the Moon?

Just 1 question (although I think I know the answer): the Earth and Moon are so far away from each other. Is this because it would be too much work for the cpu if they were together? It would be awesome to see the Earth from the surface of the Moon (or vice versa)