Mother & Me

[Richard Brekne]

Buy a super diskdrive. 125 mgs, fast, can read floppys quicker then a
firefly in heat. Junk your old floppy disk drive. You can back up a typical
windows system on one disk, and all your applications on other disks. Its a
nice solution, and it also lets you download and portabrate really big files
around.

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G. N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway

Greg Newell wrote:

> 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