At some time or another, everyone of us has realised the value of good
backups. I found a program called Norton Ghost to be an absolute asset.
Check it out on Symantec site

Stephan

----- Original Message -----
From: Don McKenzie <don@DONTRONICS.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: Jim @ Newfound


> Mark Willis wrote:
> > > Don McKenzie wrote:
> > > > Just got a phone call from Jim @ Newfound who has asked me to tell
the
> > > > group that he will be off the air for a while, as his new PC
hardware
> > > > transplant hasn't gone well at all,
>
> > You folks might consider having 15+ computers, then you can always get
> > ONE to work <G>  (Try moving at a later time;
>
> I updated 2 days ago to a new system, and it's the first time I allowed
> my self the luxury of sitting two systems side by side, and using a hard
> drive mobile rack (or caddy) between the two for file transfer.
> I may spend a month setting up my old parameters, but who cares. I do it
> when I need it, and I have a working system to follow.
>
> And I learnt my first lesson with data back-up in 1978. I had my TRS-80
> in the same outlet as the one my wife wanted to use for the Iron. After
> 8 hours of writing "Hello, I am your friendly TRS-80 Computer" or
> something just as serious, which I hadn't saved to cassette tape, she
> pulled my plug.
> "Darling, I said". :-)
>
> > Don, if he needs anything, I can mail it soon.
>
> Thanks Mark.
>
> Don McKenzie  mailto:don@dontronics.com http://www.dontronics.com
>
> World's Largest Range of Atmel and PICmicro Hardware and Software
> StampStick 32K EEPROM Basic http://www.dontronics.com/tiny51.html
>