Depending on unreliable programs isn't the best solution though.
I just keep a 120 gig offline (manually disconnecting the EIDE and power
from the drive), then back up once a week onto it. I don't rely on any
programs, just a strait file copy dose it. And if the drive (main) is
fried, the 120gig has a win98 dos system boot, with a .bat file that I
made to restore the format and partition if needed if the worst happens.
I formatted my main and the 120gig with a fat-32 file system so its
compatible with DOS, its one thing that ntfs doesn't do so its best when
your installing XP, format for fat32, its better for multimedia, vids,
pics and net surfing.
Sorry for the geek language dump, but that's what id recommend doing. If
its offline, it's undamageable. (if that's even a word.) :D
-Z
-----Original Message-----
From: shakeidas [mailto:enoble_at_email.com]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:58 AM
To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Wanted to buy: the entire archive of SWAMA
files pictures and messages
Now... How can I say this without getting banned...
Um...
How about not trusting software like that in the future? Might
help...
That really, really sucks. There's a reason why I keep an extra
hard drive around for backups every other week. I've had horrible
luck with them suffering mechanical failures over the years.
And hell, my collection's only 145 MB so far, and that would be
horrible enough to lose...
Received on Sat Sep 06 2003 - 02:25:51 CDT