🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:59:42 +0000, EvilBill wrote:

> Back when I had 98 I had no backup solution at all (I was a piss-poor
> student at first, then out of work for a while, so I didn't have money
> to
> spend on CD burners and extra HDs.) The last time I reinstalled XP was
> when I got a new rig :) ATM I have two HDs, one for the OS and apps and
> the other for data, but I've got a DVD burner too so every so often I just
> blast all the stuff I need to keep onto DVD. Simplistic solution I know,
> but better than what I had back in my 98 days: a single tiny HD and 72
> floppies ;)
 
Hell that's better than most people. My neighbor the other day wanted me
to fix her XP that she had business records on and no backuo or install
media ! Good grief it was unbootable. I didn't even want to try as that
was a losing situation for me. Most likely I could have booted it off a
live Cd like Slax or Knoppix and recovered some over a LAN or whatever
but frankly I didn't want to get involved in that mess.

I tell ya, I used to have a good ol' Colorado Jumbo tape drive. Then  I
went to removable HD's and i hope to gawd I never see another tape drive
as long as I live.

That's what I would suggest. Get a removable HD caddy and a EIDE 
HD. It takes me about 50 minutes to completely backup a 80 GB drive with
Drive Image. That in combination with PMagic are great tools. But
Symantec killed DImage. I have the last version which is NTFS capable
along with ext2 and ext3 (Linux file systems). 

Drive Image is so much better than Ghost, IMO. If you go that route and
want a copy (DI) I'll let you have one since it's out of production. But
if you have no other FS's than MS ones, Ghost will work OK I guess.

Forget anything else as it's all the same thing - Paragon and it's a
piece of crap, I mean totally useless. They market the same product under
several name they bought out.

I tried the demo and it whacks the partition tables and boot records,
leaving you with an unbootable system. I reported it to them and they
said "This is a known problem".

Huh ??? And you want me to pay for this crap ???

I planned for such a problem and had a reliable backup. So I reformatted
and restored the good backup.

Put DI and other utilities on a CD, pop in the removable HD and you are
ready to rock.