Brooke Clarke wrote:

> I'm not sure if it's related to WIN XP no change, SP1 or SP2, but if WIN 
> XP "sees" more than one copy of itself it does bad things to your hard 
> drives.  

Not sure what it is supposed to do, but whatever it is, it doesn't do that
here. I have a life mirrored copy of my system online, and WinXP sees both
copies without doing anything bad to any of them. (It's not XP itself that
does the mirroring.)

> A close friend was using RAID just for backup [...]

Bad idea. RAID is not a backup replacement.

> [...] and a few months ago had a hard drive failure.  Since he makes
> heavy use of his computer for his business this was not a good thing.  

But that's what RAID (at least RAID1) should have helped with. Why didn't
it?

Gerhard

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