Well join the ever growing crowd!!! 4 friends of mine including myself have
had massive hard drive failures , two were lost completely , the others
were recovered but I'm hearing more and more accounts of failures . I'm
wondering if we are seeing the beginning of the Y2K programimg error ??
Someone hear asked about storage , if you slave an extra hard drive say one
of at least 20-30 gig, you cam store massive files with ease and you don't
have to hunt around through your zip disks , you say "20 to 30 Gig? who has
that kind of money?" well a 20.3 gig drive is $319.00 including tax at best
buys , can't beat that price. well good luck on your project , ferreter


At 04:05 PM 8/15/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Get yourself a software utility (Norton Utilities is a good one, but there
>are others) that check your hard drive for bad blocks, as well as corrupted
>directories and other nastiness. These can be set up to automatically scan
>a drive every day or even every few hours. Most will automatically fix any
>problems or let you know what's wrong and let you decide. In addition,
>Norton will let you completely restore a hard drive that looks like it's a
>gonner. Still, there's no substitute for backing up all data.
>
>If you have a huge hard drive (a 4 gig or larger), it's probably better to
>either write data to aCD via a CD-R writer (now incredibly cheap) or back
>up to a tape drive -- you can set them to do backups of any files that
>you've made changes to at night. Just start the program running after
>you're done with the computer for the night. This way you always have
>current backups of all your files.
>
>Personally, I've found Zip drives too small for my needs. Having to search
>through 40 Zip drives for a file isn't my idea of fun (since I have a 4.5
>gig hard drive).
>
>Oh, just to make sure we mention shells, I still need some specimens of
>Argopecten irradians irradians from New Jersey up to Maine. Naturally I
>have material for trade. I find it almost incredible that nobody has any of
>these shells (well, one person does, but not as many as I need).
>
>Hope my little post help at least one person from getting the crashed hard
>drive blues.
>
>Best regards,
>Jim
>
>Jim Miller
>Tallahassee, Florida
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