Mother & Me

[Greg Newell]

I disagree!!! Don't buy a zip drive, buy a cd burner. Zip drives are
only 100 mg. O.K. 250 for the new ones. Many bios will not boot to a zip
and you must reinstall a lot before you can recover from your backups.
It's much easier IMO to boot to a floppy ( or a cd) and just copy your
stuff right back over from the cd to a hard drive without trying to get
the system to make a drive letter for the zip drive it no longer
recognizes. I have both and I use the zip for day to day backups and the
cd burner for whole system backups. 600 mgs. per cd seems better to me.
Good luck on your recovery. For those of you going on vacation, I
suggest you leave the system on while your gone. In big business they
never shut them off and there the same units we buy and use so ... why
not?
    Cheers,
    Greg Newell

robert goodale wrote:

> Hi all, I'm back from what was supposed to be Christmas
> vacation.  With all traveling, last minute shopping, family,
> ect., it was hardly a relaxation time, however.  Humbug!  Hope
> everyone else had a good holiday.  Actually New Years Eve in Las
> Vegas was pretty wild.
>
> I have been off the list a bit longer than I expected.  When I
> came home I turned on my computer to check my mail.  Suddenly the
> system froze up.  Figuring it was just Netscape or one of those
> "things" that happens sometimes I shut down and restarted the
> computer.  At the desktop it locked up again.  Again I
> rebooted...  except it wouldn't.  Again and again the system
> refused to start.  Fortunately it is a new Gateway 2000 PIII and
> fully under warranty.  I took it in to the local shop and was
> informed the next day that the mother board was completely
> cooked!!  The hard drive they said was okay.  Unfortunately when
> they got it all together again the operating system was not
> accepting the new board so they had to reformat the whole drive.
> Yup... I lost EVERYTHING, much of which was very important.  And
> the moral is... Buy a zip drive ASAP!!!  AAAUGGGHHH!!!!!
> Anyway, I have a new mother now.  Let's pray she is a good one!
>
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> Las Vegas, NV