Hi, James.
> Actually, cross posting is bad edicate.
The word is etiquette, modified to "netiquette" when applied to "net
etiquette". It just means "good manners".
I agree that finding the appropriate single newsgroup is almost always the
best approach. That's why my post emphasized "rare occasions" and "when you
MUST post to multiple groups". A few questions/problems really do cross
lines and are appropriate for more than one group. In those few situations,
cross-posting is almost always better than multi-posting.
In the present case, Gail's other post was in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices, and that's where I read it
first and replied. If it had been cross-posted to this NG, my reply would
also have appeared here, along with any other responses - such as replies to
my reply - making for a single thread, rather than disjointed responses
scattered among multiple threads. And other responders would not spend time
and effort answering a question here that had already been dealt with in
another newsgroup. We could use that time to help others whose questions
had not yet been addressed.
RC
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"James Kosin" <james.kosin.04@cnu.edu> wrote in message
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> R. C.,
>
> Actually, cross posting is bad edicate. The proper thing to do is to find
> the appropriate newsgroup to ask the question. And usually ask the
> question once. If you don't get a response then it is a question of
> asking what or where to go from here.
>
> James
>
> "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
> news:%23y4VyyZaKHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Hi, again, Gail.
>>
>> Did you see my reply to your identical post in the other newsgroup?
>>
>> On those rare occasions when you MUST post the same question to multiple
>> groups, please cross-post. That is, put all the groups into the
>> Newsgroups (address) box of a single message. That way, the message will
>> show up in each of the groups and after I read it in one group, it will
>> be marked "Read" - for me - in all of them. Each reader will see all the
>> other replies and we won't duplicate each other's efforts. The payoff
>> for you is that all the responses will also appear in every group in a
>> single coherent thread and you won't have to check all the groups for
>> replies.
>>
>> In the other reply I forgot to mention that what I suggested can be done
>> with the tools built into Vista, mostly Disk Management. It may be more
>> work than with 3rd-party software, but it can be done with what you have
>> already paid for.
>>
>> RC
>>
>> "Gail C" <gailc0279@gmail.com.donotspam> wrote in message
>> news
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>>> Originally the 2nd non-OS disk contained two primary partitions fully
>>> allocated to drives D and drive G. I shrunk both and the unallocated
>>> space is
>>> separated by the second former partition (drive G). How can i get the
>>> two
>>> unallocated spaces into one area to format and create a new partition
>>> --
>>> thank you for your help
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