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To: Clay M who wrote (6749)	11/11/1999 2:53:00 PM
From: doug-e-mini	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Hi Clay, Long time no hear. How have you been doing? DO make sure you have your cd driver on your boot disk or at least have the manufacturer's install disk handy. Good luck with it. I had to do reformat mine a couple weeks ago due to a ton of "illegal operations" I was getting. It fixed the problem. Doug ps. Still following Gene?

To: Clay M who wrote (6749)	11/11/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Operation Fresh Start ... One thought: Since you're completely renewing your system, you have an ideal no-cost opportunity to make changes in your disk partitioning. If you don't have Partition Magic, which works without losing data, you can use FDISK now, which will destroy your current data, but since you're about to destroy it anyway, there's no cost. If you're not about to do the big deed until the weekend, you have time to gather suggestions from other thread participants. Of special interest should be Rich's post about making a boot floppy. Further, you may want to use SI's search for past posts on this topic. Cheers, PW.

To: Clay M who wrote (6749)	11/11/1999 6:10:00 PM
From: Fargonaut	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110626

Hi Clay, I want to recommend DriveImage from Power Quest. I put it on during my last C:\format and it has made it much easier for me to maintain my computer. My backup method has been basically to have two hard drives, and use the secondary for the backup files and the swap file. I used to use the Windows backup program but it was inadequate, although fine for partial or interim backups. DriveImage really does the trick for me: it will fit on a boot floppy, and it transfers data at about 95-100 MB/min (Win95 P120). If I screw up the system somehow, it will overwrite my mess with the backup image as it restores (no reformatting necessary), and when I boot up, I've got the old machine back. Frank