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From: blknowle@uokmax.UUCP (Bradford L Knowles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: I just thrashed my Hard Disk!
Message-ID: <1421@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 14:40:57 GMT
References: <3599@okstate.UUCP> <76000227@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: blknowle@uokmax.UUCP (Bradford L Knowles)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <76000227@uiucdcsp> gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Don't blame the bad alert box for causing the novice to reinitialize
>their disk!
>
[silly comments deleted...]
>Changing the error message is a pathetic attempt to bandaid a broken
>dike.  When the user has read the manual, tried every available
>avenue, and nothing works, OF COURSE HE REINITIALIZES THE DISK!!!  For
>gode's sake, how are you supposed to know that MacZap or Disk Clinic
>may help, when it's not documented ANYWHERE?????
>
>Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
>            {gillies@cs.uiuc.edu}

Give me a break!  Brain-damaged users who don't read manuals and assume
that software will say "hmmm, this is a hard disk, even though he told
me to intialiaze it, I won't..." deserve what they get.

Wake up and smell the flowers, folks.... "Intialiaze disk" *REALLY*
means "Intialize disk" (and wipe out everything on there).

I'll admit, Apple could use a better file-recovery program (like, maybe
they could buy the rights to SUM), but this is simply a matter of "what
would be nice."

Sorry Don, but people who don't pay attention to what the manuals say,
nor do they really pay attention to what the dialog box says, *NEED* to
have something screwed up really bad so that they won't forget later.

-Brad Knowles

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