The hard drive on one of the computers we use at work is just about full. Which is starting to cause errors to happen in the dos based program that is run on it.
The boss rang the technican that looks after the computers (as the program that runs on the computers as well is his creation) asking what could be done to fix the problem (like deleting some of the history and other information off the hd etc). The technican said it could be done but it wouldn't make much difference as there is too much information stored on the hard drive.
(Ok, this I fully agree with. After looking at how much space is left on the hd myself).
Here's the punch line which I don't agree with and I'm wondering if you could explain to me if this is right or not.
The technican said, "that he needs to by a new hard drive and install the program on it".
I thought that he would be able to reformat the hard drive and re-install the program on it and use the backup informat that we save each day to disk.
The program is a dos based, does this matter, I thought you could reformat the hd not matter what? Or is this guy just leading us astray?
So, if we start off with doing the fdisk and then the reformat won't that delete the data that is actually on the hard drive or not?
Maybe I have no idea at all, but I'm just curious to see what ideas you guys have to offer me.
Anyway, another part of the question is where do you stand with the ATO on this, so long as you've got the main info they require what's on the drive doesn't really matter so long as you've got copies of the takings, etc from the shop there should be no prob right?
Like he's saying to us that we can't delete the info on the hd cause we need to keep the hard drive info for tax purposes, is this guy mad or what? *or just me* So long as we have resonable info on what goes on day to day we should be right, you can't tell me that every comany is Aus has to get a new hd everytime it becomes full?
Sorry if I haven't quite explained myself properly, but I think you'll get the general idea of what I'm trying to say.
RE: Can we reformat the hd or not?
Or should I just shut my mouth cause I have no idea what I'm talking about?
The boss rang the technican that looks after the computers (as the program that runs on the computers as well is his creation) asking what could be done to fix the problem (like deleting some of the history and other information off the hd etc). The technican said it could be done but it wouldn't make much difference as there is too much information stored on the hard drive.
(Ok, this I fully agree with. After looking at how much space is left on the hd myself).
Here's the punch line which I don't agree with and I'm wondering if you could explain to me if this is right or not.
The technican said, "that he needs to by a new hard drive and install the program on it".
I thought that he would be able to reformat the hard drive and re-install the program on it and use the backup informat that we save each day to disk.
The program is a dos based, does this matter, I thought you could reformat the hd not matter what? Or is this guy just leading us astray?
So, if we start off with doing the fdisk and then the reformat won't that delete the data that is actually on the hard drive or not?
Maybe I have no idea at all, but I'm just curious to see what ideas you guys have to offer me.
Anyway, another part of the question is where do you stand with the ATO on this, so long as you've got the main info they require what's on the drive doesn't really matter so long as you've got copies of the takings, etc from the shop there should be no prob right?
Like he's saying to us that we can't delete the info on the hd cause we need to keep the hard drive info for tax purposes, is this guy mad or what? *or just me* So long as we have resonable info on what goes on day to day we should be right, you can't tell me that every comany is Aus has to get a new hd everytime it becomes full?
Sorry if I haven't quite explained myself properly, but I think you'll get the general idea of what I'm trying to say.
RE: Can we reformat the hd or not?
Or should I just shut my mouth cause I have no idea what I'm talking about?
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