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To: PMS Witch who wrote (5928)9/25/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 110652
 
PW, re >I don't know if you want to devote a partition
for backups or not at this time, but after your first major
crash, I'm sure you'll give it some serious thought.
<

I'm not comfortable having the backup on the same drive.
If the crash is due to head/disk contact, the drive will
be contaminated and the head may be useless for accessing
the backup partition. Since hard drives are cheap, I'd
install a second drive or use a removable medium drive.

Gottfried