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On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:49:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > Why would you want to do that? The virtual CD is not taking up any |
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> > space on the disk |
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> oRly? Toshiba used to sell USB keys that came built in with a cd (or |
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> hd?) partition that you couldn't get rid of but it took up space. |
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> They provided a windows utility that could erase it, and give the space |
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> back to the primary partition. |
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If it is using space on the disk, then it is worth removing, but if it is |
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in the firmware, there's no real point. |
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> > and it is no longer visible on your system once you eject it. |
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> > Why would you want to risk turning the drive into a brick |
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> > to get rid of it when it's not really there anyway? |
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> Because it's annoying? Because it's wrong? Because it's there? |
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But it's not, not once you eject the virtual CD. Is it really worth |
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bricking your hardware and invalidating the warranty to get rid of |
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something that disappears after a couple of microseconds anyway? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If at first you don't succeed, well...darn. |
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