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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (11295)	9/23/2000 10:41:50 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

"Now that I have removed Norton what is the best software to keep my hard drive healthy?" with norton... symantecstore.com

To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (11295)	9/23/2000 11:11:16 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Now that I have removed Norton what is the best software to keep my hard drive healthy? Backup to removable media might help by taking away the motivation for a HDD to screwup. Haven't tried this yet myself. Seems to work: don't screw with your computer -- just use it. I've had 3 HDD disasters myself. VERY irritating until you realize how little you needed that data. Yesterday a friend called me from the computer shop. His HDD had finally died after months of screwing up. Thing is, he hadn't realized that the screwups were HDD-induced corruption. I told him that I saw a method of HDD-failure-recovery on this thread whereby you drop the dead HDD on the floor. They tried this and it worked -- well, they were able to get enough function out of the drive to get some of the data off of it using DOS. His mechanic spent about 10 hours on the job and didn't charge him much, probably out of guilt for not realizing what the early symptoms meant. wily