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To: Gottfried who wrote (5929)	9/26/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Backup partition ... You're correct about a backup partition being inadequate protection, since with a hard disk failure your backup is lost too. I should've pointed that out, but forgot. I backup my system to Zip disks. If I was starting over, I'd take a serious look at burning CDs. The poster I was responding to said some of the work being contemplated was to burn CDs, so I assumed backups would be part of the plan. My experience, however limited, is that I've never had a hard disk failure, but I've had plenty of software messes. I attempt to match my precautions to my risks. I have my system on Zip disks, but they're a little stale; I have my working data on Zip disks which are up to date; and I have my system copied to an image on another partition. I can recover from a software problem in a few minutes and a hardware problem in a few hours. This sure beats a few days to never for recovering a system having never been backed up. Again, thank-you for pointing out that a backup partition offers no protection against hard disk failure. This is an important piece of the puzzle. Cheers, PW.

To: Gottfried who wrote (5929)	9/26/1999 2:14:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

What I did in my computer was install a new HDD, a smaller one than the original. My original, that is a 10 GB my second is a 8 GB. (I did this for a reason) I use D: strictly for back up ONLY. I took images of my HDD when I rebuilt it, one image with Win98, Win98 SE, all the drivers installed for Sound card, CDR-W, Video, etc...so if I ever want to do a clean install I just restore that first image. Then I created 2 more images of the C: in case one gets corrupted. This has happened to me with Drive Image. I always take an image before I install any new software, just in case it goes haywire after the install. I back-up critical data ALL the time, Netscape user folder, etc...so if an image is a couple weeks old, all I have to do is restore the image and then copy the critical data to bring the computer back up to date.