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To: Andja Miskin who wrote (2628)	9/24/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

KOT drives Clarence, reading and posting is not that tough. The index project is what takes a lot of time. They just don't allow you to fix problems easily, and restoring your system if you do have a serious problem is impossible. Helppp!!! I am not up on tape backup but I assume you are using NT to back up NT? Drive Image and Ghost have both been mentioned. I am not familiar with Ghost but use Drive Image. Drive Image is a DOS program. You can run it from the floppy drive or from a harddrive with a dos mode prompt in Win95/98. KOT drives Disclaimer. Second harddrives are not considered reliable stand alone back up systems. One needs to incorporate removable media in an overall backup strategy. The KOT ( keep on truck'in) drive is a second harddrive. It is a quick and easy way to restore an entire operating system and program installations. Before I install new software or hardware or experiment with configurations I use Drive Copy by PowerQuest to make a clone of the primary harddrive. The time varies depending on the size of the harddrive that is duplicated. Figure about twenty minutes for a couple of GB. Should the Primary OS installation fail the restoration process is very simple. One need only enter the bios on boot ( before any OS is loaded) and change the boot sequence of the drives. The machine will then boot to the second harddrive. I think this should work for all ( most?) OSes including, DOS, WIN95/98, NT , LINUX, BEOS? It has saved me countless hours of OS and software installations after a computer glitch rendered my machine crippled or useless. Zeuspaul

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